what happened to the Safari thumbnail for webloc files?

until the 7.0.6 upgrade, when you dragged a favicon (the icon to the left of the URL window in Safari) to the desktop to create a webloc file for the URL, OS X made those icons into the same icon used for Safari.

now it's just a blank white icon like an 8.5x11" white page

what gives? I know I can individually paste the Safari icon image into every single weblog icon I have, but that will take forever, and then I'd also have to do it for every new webloc file created

Posted on Sep 18, 2014 7:40 AM

17 replies

Feb 23, 2015 2:32 PM in response to sam206

Thanks to both of you for details re: OnyX.

Upon being notified of this reply — and before trying OnyX — I created a new webloc file and discovered that it's now working correctly! In the time since my previous post, Apple updated Mavericks to 10.10.2, which I installed, last month.

So, it's possible the issue was (deliberately or inadvertently) corrected with the update.

MaxGuru

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Apr 3, 2015 7:36 AM in response to Syncopator

Only the Onyx cleaning did the trick for me.

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what happened to the Safari thumbnail for webloc files?