High Sierra no App Icon

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I just updated to High Sierra, and a ton of my apps (Apple apps like Safari, App store, and systems pref) as well as apps I downloaded (League of Legends). Any ideas what the issue is or how to fix it?

MacBook Pro TouchBar and Touch ID, iOS 11.0.1

Posted on Sep 28, 2017 10:22 AM

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Jan 9, 2018 1:55 PM in response to chocolatecows88

I don't know what "League of Legends" is. I don't have it. This is not the source of my problem.


I have been on High Sierra for a couple of months. Nothing (as far as I know) changed this afternoon, but SUDDENLY, several of my icons (Mac Mail, iTunes, and Evernote) are doing the same thing. Now I am supposed to try manually cutting and pasting the icon from .. what, the application in Finder to.. what?? Or go find its image online and cut and paste?? Please.


And anyway, how does that change what's in the dock?


Ex: I am seeing my regular Mac Mail icon in the Finder window for Applications. But I have the generic icon on the dock AND in the Task Switcher (Command+tab).


Is anybody home at Apple that can advise on this?? It is a big pain, and threatens to make the dock nearly unusable.

PLEASE advise!

Dec 8, 2017 3:09 AM in response to chocolatecows88

I have the same issue, don't know why, frustrating.


I find this manual fix works: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201737

I found the correct icons usually in Applications->Right click on the app "Show Package Contents"->Contents (folder)->Resources (or somewhere in that root folder).


Apple, this is a problem. As a long time user and stock holder the recent rounds of software issues are not impressive.

Oct 16, 2017 8:40 AM in response to chocolatecows88

Exact same problem. Dock icons, task switcher (CMD+Tab), Mission Control, Launchpad, Applications directory (and Utilities subdirectory) are all filled with dozens of the generic icon. This includes Terminal, TextEdit, Mail, Spotify, etc.


Googling only finds this problem on older versions of macOS, and the solutions don't work due to the inability of even root to touch /Applications/* directories. Time to file an official bug report I guess.

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