Dock icons are missing after installing High Sierra

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Dock icons are missing after installing High Sierra

I installed High Sierra on my iMac 2011 Middle today. After installing, many of my dock icons are missing... I have tried some things I found (Terminal command lines, removing icons from dock and take back from applications), but nothing changed.

Is there anyone who experience the same? Is there anything that could fix this problem? Mainly mac icons are missings, like app store, facetime, photos, messages...

In the application folder of finder the icons are displayed correctly.

iMac, macOS High Sierra (10.13.1)

Posted on Dec 1, 2017 9:02 AM

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Answer 1

snsok

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Dec 1, 2017 9:39 AM in response to bagi.peter

Same problem here right after I got a High Sierra auto-installed security fix last night. Mine is not confined to dock icons. Several icons for other apps have been replaced by the "generic" no-icon icon. Facetime's icon is gone and it no longer launches. I get an error message as displayed in the attachment, which also shows many files with missing icons.

Hope the fix to the fix comes out soon.

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Answer 2

tygb

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Dec 4, 2017 1:41 AM in response to bagi.peter

Run NVRAM / PRAM and then safe mode .

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tygb

Level 9

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Dec 1, 2017 9:46 AM in response to snsok

My all default applications were changed just like this , as there was an update exactly , and NVRAM worked for me ,every application was normal after that .

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snsok

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Dec 1, 2017 3:33 PM in response to tygb

I did a cold reboot and it seems to be healed. My macbook had the same icon problem today, so I presume it's from the update they pushed out in the last 24 hr

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bagi.peter Author

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Dec 4, 2017 1:43 AM in response to tygb

Thank you, NVRAM reset was enough to solve the problem. 🙂

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Answer 6

draft69

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Dec 8, 2017 1:24 PM in response to bagi.peter

I just restarted in safe mode (hold down shift key until sign-on displays) and after signing on, all the dock icons were displayed correctly. I then restarted without safe mode and the fix remained.

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