iconservicesagent OS Mojave issue

I'm interested in your adaptations using Photos and Luminar. Does a Luminar extension support all or most of the editing that you would previously do in Aperture? I never tried Photos Extensions. Hmm.. Does a Luminar extension support RAW editing? Does Photos work with RAW photos?

I think I can get some answers through web searches, but I'd like your anecdotal comments as well.

I'm not a professional, not even a semiprofessional. But have to do photo works for friends, for our club and so on.

I never used Aperture so can’t compare. But used iPhoto "with closed eyes" - it means I know many shortcuts and workflows. However, iPhoto quite literally makes light work of such a picture application.

War should the app able to do:

• store all my pics, may be in albums

• use different libraries (I'm using "PowerPhotos" to merge pics with metadatas)

• sort it, use keywords, faces, locations and so on

• do little improvements (may be a bit more if necessary)

The app has to be:

• easy to handle and clear

• fast(!!)

• safe

• usable system-wide

• maclike ;-)

I didn't understand why APPLE decided to create this awful "flying information window" and also the changes in "batch processing" (get out of the context menu into the information window) and do all this other unuseful/senseless things in the menu.

I must confess - I'm an old style user.....but I read hundreds of posts with topic "I want back my 'Save as...' " and not the "duplicate ****".

So I think, I'm not soooooo alone....

@13rendan

I've been having this issue (iconservicesagent) with an external hard drive. I know the Volume name, but I'm a bit of a amateur when it comes to Terminal. Any idea how I could apply this command to the external hard drive in question? Thanks!

Thank you for the reply! Very helpful.

Are you saying OS Catalina has solved the iconservicesagent issue? Isn't a public release imminent? (I know the Beta is available). Maybe I should just wait? Thanks!

But……make sure you have no 32 bit apps still in use as Catalina purges all backward compatibility so you will find a bunch of stuff that no longer works. In my case old copies of Adobe PDF Pro and other adobe products pre the subscription model that has no appeal an dis far to expensive for my world

OK, I understand. I'm very sad to read this. I cant't give up Mojave because my other old apps.

Thank you very much for this (bad) news. For me this are increasing signs of a decline in the quality of Apple.

Question:

What's about encrypted disk images? No more probs with Catalina? Iconserviceagent has big problems with this images...

Unfortunately, upgrading isn't an option for everyone. My 2010 Mac Pro isn't supported (though I plan to install it with the patch tool, since Apple hasn't offered a properly upgrade path since 2012, and the next Mac Pro isn't out yet, nor will it be in my price range for the next few years), Dashboard is removed, and 32-bit apps are no more. For most people, this won't be an issue, but for some, 10.14 is the last system they'll be able to use for the nest few years. It's just a shame they weren't able to fix it. They're in the stop 2-3 software companies on the planet, it definitely seems doable if they wanted to get it done.

I had this issue as well since I have a couple hundred movie files with custom file icons (setup using the MovieIcon app). Things became unusable when I opened my Movies folder. I had to go through and remove the custom icons -- this would have taken a long time but I used this script in Terminal to make quick work of it (be sure you cover all the possible file extensions, not just ".mp4")...

find ~/Movies -name "*.mp4" | while read f ; 
do xattr -d com.apple.ResourceFork "$f" ; 
done

What this script is doing is just looping through all files in my "Movies" folder and removing the icon (what MacOS calls "ResourceFork") for each file. Hope this helps!

I've got the same problem, 100% agree with you, but unfortunately this process is necessary in order to see the icons properly so our hands and feet are tied...

In my case iconservicesagent process begin to devour GBs of RAM and normally Finder collapses. No matter if I try to access internal or external hard drives, the problem remains the same.

I tried two "solutions" which didn't work for me:

a) Deleting: /Library/Caches/com.apple.iconservices.store (you´ll be prompted for your administrator login password). More info.

b) Creating a temporary directory: mkdir ${TMPDIR}/com.apple.IconServices (Mavericks issue) More info.

I hope that Apple will provide a real Mojave solution soon because right now my computer looks like an expensive paperweight and I am not psychologically prepared to go back to the Microsoft Windows World :-(

This process is a real showstopper. It renders my Mac literally useless. Video stutters, freezes, Finder freezes. Only hard reset is a solution. This is 10.14.3

I have a MacBookPro with the maximum memory - 16Gb (system limit as I understand) and 10Gb consumed by one app is unsustainable.

So! This mode temporarily solves the problem, but the files have also lost all the tags, comments and normal Finder functions. You can say well: "Stupid Mojave" :-(

I have the same ISA problem but no custom icons.

My previous post got deleted for mentioning a beta, but yeah, they do finally get this fixed. As of 10.14.6 it's still a problem though.

Still an issue in 10.14.6, but it should be resolved in a future release.