missing folder icons

Unfortunately your image does not show up. But maybe i can help anyway. I am a new owner of a macbook pro 15'' and i installed Yosemite (clean install, wiped mavericks completely before).

I found it strange that finder did not show any icons at all. Even the application icons were some kind of hidden. What solved the issue on my system was the following:

Open finder and go to preferences. In general i enabled the option to start finder with my home user (your username). Go to "sidebar" and enable home (your username), pictures, movies and music. After restarting the system all my icons were back.

Please let me know if this also works for you.

Greetings,

Tumas04

Edit: i saw your picture and it seems to be a different issue. So my "fix" probably will not work.

1. Open a Finder window and select “Go to Folder” in the Go menu.
2. Type in ~/Library/Caches and hit enter to proceed to this folder.
3. Optional step: You can highlight and copy everything to a different folder just in case something goes wrong.
4. Highlight everything and press Command-Backspace.
5. Restart your machine so that your apps and system can generate new, fresh caches.

does it works for u???

I tried this for the same problem. No change.

Simplest way to fix the issue is to delete the finder.plist

Open Terminal app int he utilities and copy and paste this:

:

rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist

be pre warned you will have to re set up the finder prefs

This Issue was solved to me in this way: Un-hide files using something like TinkerTool, then you will see (in the folder you're trying to have icon back) so there is a hidden file called "Icon" delete that file and Voila System Icons are back hope this helps, Greetings

Worked for me! If your folder icon is showing up as a piece of paper, this works.

What did you do for this to work all my folders are coming up as blank paper