I recently removed microsoft office from my computer and installed LibreOffice. Now .xlsx, .docx and .pptx files show an "empty document" icon. When I get info for a file, the icon that shows up is the microsoft office icon, but these icons do not show in finder.
Is there anyway to fix this problem. Not having icons makes it more difficult to distinguish between files at first glance.
Mac OS X (10.6.4)
Select one file of a given type, Get Info, the set the program to open it to LibreOffice (or whatever its sub-component is). Then, click the Change All… button.
If that doesn't restore the icons after a period of time, you might try resetting the Launch Services database. Run the following command in Terminal. To Run it, triple-click the line to select it all, then copy it to clipboard. Open Terminal and paste it in. Hit return.
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchSe rvices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain user
The icons are cached from the Application. If the Application is no longer loaded, the icon will be lost. It may be that the preview icon is cached in a different location and not updated.
Select one file of a given type, Get Info, the set the program to open it to LibreOffice (or whatever its sub-component is). Then, click the Change All… button.
If that doesn't restore the icons after a period of time, you might try resetting the Launch Services database. Run the following command in Terminal. To Run it, triple-click the line to select it all, then copy it to clipboard. Open Terminal and paste it in. Hit return.
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchSe rvices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain user
The icons are cached from the Application. If the Application is no longer loaded, the icon will be lost. It may be that the preview icon is cached in a different location and not updated.
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For each different Word, Excel, and Powerpoint icon, perform a Get Info on it. In the resulting panel, look at the Open with: application choice. Change this to LibreOffice. Then click the Change All… button. You will be presented with the following pop-up. Click Continue.
The Open with application will now be the LibreOffice icon. This icon will appear after you have performed this process on the other MS Office documents. LibreOffice will detect what type of file format, and automatically open it in Writer, Calc, or Impress.
I'll try some of these options and report back.
I have already changed all the office file types to default open with LibreOffice, but that didn't solve the problem.
This did not work unfortunately.
Anyone have other ideas?
Have you tried clearing your icon cache via terminal?
You can clear your icon cache by following these steps:
1. Close all active applications
2. Run terminal
3. Type the following command:
sudo rm -rf /Library/Caches/com.apple.iconservices.store5. Reboot your mac
Just so you know, I had a problem of a somewhat similar nature, with respect to .torrent files. Before, my default torrent client was utorrent, so naturally, all my .torrent files would show utorrent file icons. But I unistalled utorrent. Then i reinstalled utorrent. Upon reinstalling utorrent, however, I noticed that .torrent files are now showing blank icons in finder instead of the utorrent file icons i had before. That despite the fact that utorrent is now my only and default app for opening .torrent files.
So what I did is to clear my icon cache (following the steps above) and that fixed my problem.
Good luck.
After searching all over the internet,
this line solve the problem of icon issues associated with file types.
Thanks man!
sudo rm -rf /Library/Caches/com.apple.iconservices.store
Another solution. Go to Finder View Options. Unclick Show Icon Preview. Now you can save any documents with the Include Preview option.
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