I really like Yosemite, but one thing I noticed right away was that my MS document icons all turned white on the desktop. If I open a Finder window they appear in the List view, Column view and Cover Flow (does anyone use that anymore?) but not in the Icon view. Any ideas?
MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10)
Same here , tried everything, nothing has any effect. Yosemite is sooo slow !! So much I hate about it. !! Simple things like having the spotlight window in the middle of the page. :lol:
Indeed TinkerToolSystem 4 did the trick, and whatever the app for which you have icon problems (it restored icons for MS, torrent files, inc files, php, sitx, etc...) ! I bought it yesterday 🙂.
I wonder how the cache cleaning option of this app works because I have tried everything for manually cleaning os x caches without success...
To restore program icons (e.g., MS office, pdf, etc)
In Yosemite -> Open Finder -> Right click a document file -> select Show View Options -> Uncheck Show Icon preview
Hope this helps.
This solved it for me with exact same issues as others here. Deleting /Library/Caches/com.apple.iconservices.store does the job. You will need to enter your administrator password for this. Follow up with a reboot.
This worked for me.
Bought new MBP with Yosemite pre-installed a few weeks ago and had the same issue since I installed MS Office.
Deleted all files in all 3 folders as you recommended. (Just into trash) and restarted.
Problem solved, thanks! 🙂
I was trying everything without sucess ad finally Onyx worked for me. IMPORTANT: Make sure you check 'Icon services' in the User tab under Cleaning section, by default it is not checked and I think that is what solves the issue 😉
Tried everything for weeks -- this finally worked for me! Thanks guimarca!
I tried everything from clearing/ resetting caches manually or with Terminal to cleaning the harddisk using Onyx and other programs. Nothing helped until I did the following: completely remove and then re-install Microsoft Office. I don't know whether this will be the solution for everyone here but I guess it's worth the try.
Fix that worked for me but not for a friend of mine ...
Right-click the document icon > Show View Options
De-select "Show icon preview"
Never mind this ... do what JK9 suggests above (deleting the iconservices folder)
I don't think you need to go this far. JK9 suggests deletion of a single folder/file within the Library > Cache folder, and this seems to have worked perfectly for me.
This provided the solution for me:
rrbiswas wrote:
More specifically, just deleting /Library/Caches/com.apple.iconservices.store does the job. You will need to enter your administrator password for this. Follow up with a reboot.
I lost the whole desktop (except for one icon) in front of a class today after plugging an HDMI cable in, via a Moshi adapter.
I'm using a MacBook Pro 17 Mid-2011 with the latest Yosemite. I was running a 1920X1200 screen on a 1920X1080 projector
After resetting the PRAM, deleting some plists and making a few other stabs in the dark, I clicked on my desktop, which revealed the "Finder/File/Edit/View/Go/Window/Help" tabs, then I chose "View>Show View Options." I slid the "Icon Size" to the tiniest possible size, then I slid the "Grid Spacing" to the largest possible size and did a "Command+A to select all. I dragged my one Icon to the left and voila! Icons! All of those rascals were hiding just off the right side of my screen. I guess there's more than 1920, virtually speaking.
I Have this issue come and go not just for ms files but ALL file Icons. Then some reappear but many files are "missing" the icon even though the are there. I have done several Disk verify and permission verify..because of slowness. If this is a Yosemite bug why has is not been fixed?
I had the same experience as Ouatataz:
Manually deleting the cache via the following steps did not work:
However, deleting all four cache options via TinkerToolSystem 4 solved the problem.
Where have my MS icons gone in Yosemite?
