Applications show missing icons after migration assistant but open anyway?

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Applications show missing icons after migration assistant but open anyway?

I have an iMac, and I had some user accounts on an external drive. (Background: I thought I had a failing hard disk in an apple laptop, didn't have time to get it serviced, used the spare external as a new drive and installed Mac OS X on it and put some user accounts on it.)

This morning I used migration assistant to migrate the accounts from the external drive onto the iMac. All accounts are working fine, but my apps folder looks like this on only one of the migrated accounts:

The apps are fine on all of the accounts including the other migrated accounts.

When I click any of the applications which have the missing icon, they run perfectly. It doesn't say it's missing. Is there a problem? Will this go away? Is there anything I can or should be doing..

Thank you in advance!

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

Posted on Mar 7, 2016 9:30 AM

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Answer 1

Eric Root

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Mar 8, 2016 9:30 AM in response to smichigan

Long shot. Might be a corrupt .plist.

Do a backup, preferably 2 backups on 2 separate drives.

Quit the application.

Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Select Library. Then go to Preferences. Move the .plist to your desktop.

Restart the computer, open the application, and test. If it works okay, delete the plist from the desktop.

If the application is the same, return the .plist to where you got it from, overwriting the newer one.

Thanks to leonie for some information contained in this.

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smichigan Author

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Mar 7, 2016 9:43 AM in response to Eric Root

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Answer 3

Eric Root

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Mar 7, 2016 9:41 AM in response to smichigan

If you select one of the applications with no icon and do a Get Info (command - I) what shows at the top left corner where the icon is normally displayed?

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