Icon Preview on desktop keeps needing to be restarted

hi andrew ,have you had this problem fixed,mine does it all the time as well,have you a fix.i have logged this on apple communities,with no replys, hope you can help me ,very frustrating

First try a Safe Boot, this will delete the dynamic-loader shared cache among other things

SafeBoot http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1564

Restart as normal after the SafeBoot and test.

ill give that a try and let you know ,thank you for responding

hi leroy, just turned on my mac from overnight, and my icon preview on my desktop is not showing again, i had to tick and untick to get it back on, anymore help will be grateful, its driving me mad

I suspect a corrupt plist.

Move to the Desktop your com.apple.finder.plist

This is found in your user/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist

Finder>Go>Go to Folder copy and paste:

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

Relaunch your Finder. Control-Option click on Finder Dock icon-->Relaunch. This will automatically create a new plist. Other options will have to be customized back to what you are use to as well. If this sorts the problem, trash the plist on your Desktop.

If no change you can drop the old plist back in the ~/Library/Preferences folder and no harm done.

leroy your nearly a genius, it has created a new com.apple.finder.plist in the prefs, and it works fine , but i have left the old one on the desktop, if i trash the one on the desktop it goes back again to the problem,any more ideas, please

The hidden .DS_Store files can become corrupted causing unusual behavior by the finder when you open certain folders such as the finder window blinking open and then closing, inability to see some icons, inability to sort icons, or inability to change the view options.

To fix it, type the following in the app/utilities/Terminal.app

This will delete the .DS_Store file and automatically create a new one in its place.

*Copy and paste* in terminal window the following command line:

rm ~/Desktop/.DS_Store

ive just copied and pasted it into the terminal app ,that ive never used before ,after i copy it in ,how do i use terminal app,sorry mate ,it has my macs name and the last log in before in the terminal app

open the terminal.app found in your ~/Applications/Utilities folder

copy and paste:

rm ~/Desktop/.DS_Store

enter the command by hitting the return key

quite terminal app

restart your computer

thanks leroy, ive just done that,ill try it for a day and let you know, thank you

hi leroy,just fired up the mac this morning,and yet again i had no icon preview on my desktop icons,its driving me mad, have you anymore ideas please

hi leroy ,anymore ideas you can think of,i did a relaunch of the finder when my mac restarts,and the desktop icon view comes back

just held the option key,and clicked the finder and they were ok,switched off /and on the mac and they were std icons again

help please

I for one do not turn my Mac off and on, just close the lid and let it sleep over night, lift the lid and go to work . This may side step your issue.

You can open a guest account to see if the problem is universal.

You can do a safe boot which will not launch any third party apps that may be interfering, giving you a new course of action.

You can always reinstall the OS on top of your system, this will preserve all user data etc, just the OS gets replaced to see if it sorts the issue.

Always good to have a current backup plan.

Apple Feedback http://www.apple.com/feedback/

Bug Reporter https://bugreport.apple.com/

i did a safe boot and it was ok when it started, then restarted normal and it was back again ,when i put all my icons into a seperate folder on the desktop,they are always icon view, when i take 1 icon out and put on desktop and restart,the icon view doesnt show,but when i drag it into the folder it shows straight away ? when you say reinstall your os system ,do you mean just reinstall 10.10.5, or yosemite fron the apple downloads, thanks for your help again

If all is fine in Safe Boot then there is a third party app interfering. Go to your >System Preferences>Users&Groups> Login Items

remove these login items to determine the culprit.

No mention of a guess account.

Yes reinstall the OS Yosemite from Recovery, App Store, USB/Flash installer what ever you chose as a possibility.