Where have my MS icons gone in Yosemite?

thanks bogdanbat...this worked for me

hey VikingOSX thank for the tip…

Actually just starting in safe mode and login fix all icon display correctly.

i didn't have to do the optional step.

restarted and every icon display correctly.

Hey Guys,

this was the only solution that worked for me, without messing with the icon cache, libraries, etc.

So just restart and press shift continuously while doing so. You boot into Safe Mode.

Then set all the extensions of Microsoft Office in the Get Info panel.

You may need to do it a few times (I did it twice, because some of my files were still not repaired).

For Parallels users, like me, I have found it best doing it as follows:

- when you are in Safe Mode, browse for your Windows 8.1 apps in your /Users/YOUR_NAME/Applications (Parallels)/Windows 8.1 Applications folder.

- select the right one there

- when you are finished, restart

Now you should have the right icons displaying on your Microsoft Office files.

Best,

István

Thanks!

I was having a similar, but simpler problem following a Time Machine migration to a new machine, where the .msox extension icons weren't showing up. Simply cleaning the cache out manually (as opposed to using more random software I've no trust of) was a much more elegant solution.

Hey , were you able to fix this?

I did a clean install fo Yosemite and seems that my List and some preview icons are totally blank.

Any advice would be appreciated.

hello 🙂

what was the fix for this?

I finally figured this out. Go to the Finder. Click View Options. Uncheck the box for Show Icon Preview. Fixed!

Worked great! Thanks a lot!

Thank you for these helpful instructions - solved the problem for me! I'd tried deleting caches, to no avail. But perhaps that was an important preliminary? Either way, icons now appear. Thanks again!

I have upgraded to Office for Mac 2016. Lo and behold my icons are all back. This may have been as much a Microsoft issue as an Apple one.

Anytime you save a document, don't select Include Preview. This worked for me in QuarkXPress and Microsoft Word. If I choose to Include Preview, the desktop icons are small previews of the actual document, not the application icon.

Another solution. Go to Finder View Options. Unclick Show Icon Preview. Now you can save any documents with the Include Preview option. See my previous reply.

cheers, this worked 🙂

HI,

I had the same problem.

I did run CleanMyMac2 and restarted my MacBook and everything went back to normal.

Fingers crossed

r

Thanks Guimarca your solution worked for me. (See original post on page 6). To save you all back tracking here is what I did: Downloaded Oynx direct from the Titanium Software website and installed. Followed Guimarca's instructions to, "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." And thanks to all contributors to this thread.