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How to get icons to display correctly in Finder?

Back in the days of the "classic" Mac OS, if icons weren't displaying correctly in the Finder, one could "rebuild the desktop file" to correct the problem. I've recently upgraded to Yosemite, and most things are working well, but for some reason most .webloc files in the Finder are now showing as blank icons (though not all; a few show the correct icon). I've tried starting from an external disk, repairing permissions and repairing the file system, as well as cleaning with the Maintenance utility, to no avail. Does anybody know of a way to get the computer to display these icons correctly?

MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2), 2.4GHz (2013), 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD

Posted on Feb 15, 2015 11:25 AM

17 replies

HayoBaan

Level 1

6 points

Apr 14, 2015 3:13 AM in response to HandyMac

I just upgraded to Yosemite and I too was having these weird Icon issues with .webloc files.

I too killed and recreated my account, and that got me the webloc icons back. However, the victory was shortlived; after changing the default browser application to Firefox, the icon would change from the safari logo with WEBLOC underneath to an @ sign with HTTP underneath. I then ran the fix as mentioned. Well, this sorta helped, now at least all my webloc files are the @ sign with HTTP underneath.

The strange thing is though, that on my other Mac, the behaviour is completely different: first of all, no issues with wrong icons, plus all icons are (still) the (nicer looking) safari logo ones. Go figure…

HandyMac Author

Level 2

478 points

Dec 29, 2015 10:31 AM in response to HandyMac

See a later thread for the simple solution: Use the utility OnyX to clear the Icon Services cache (click the Cleaning icon, then the User tab, check Icon Services, click Execute).

How to get icons to display correctly in Finder?