.zip icon not appearing...

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.zip icon not appearing...

I use The Unarchiver for all my zipping stuff.

If I have a .zip file on my laptop already, it displays the icon correctly (a brown parcel type icon).

However if I download a new zip file, the icon appears as the Mac OS X standard 'unknown' icon, the one that looks like a blank piece of paper.

Any suggestions on how to change it so all .zip files show properly? (Other archive formats like .tar show their icon fine.)

C2D MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Posted on Mar 27, 2007 2:33 PM

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Answer 1

macjack

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Mar 27, 2007 3:59 PM in response to fo3nix

If I have a .zip file on my laptop already, it displays the icon correctly (a brown parcel type icon).

That is not a zip file that is .SITX which opens with Stuffit.

The correct icon for a zip file is a piece of paper with a turned down edge and a zipper on it. Choose any file or folder and right click on it (or control-click) and choose "make archive of..." the result is a .zip file.

Now get info on any zip file (Command-i) and make sure Under "Open with" BOMArchiveHelper is selected. Be sure you can open the zip, then use the "Change all" button.

EDIT: BOMArchiveHelper is located in /System/Library/CoreServices

-mj
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fo3nix Author

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Mar 28, 2007 1:56 AM in response to macjack

It's definitely a .zip file, and it's definitely brown parcel (with 'zip' written on it, actually).

However, I've just realised that the only files affected are those created when I download them with firefox. I can download the exact file with Safari, and the icon is there. Guess it's a firefox issue then.

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awado

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Mar 28, 2007 2:04 AM in response to fo3nix

Some months ago I found a tool to manage the systems behaviour in launching apps for specific file suffixes called RCDefaulApp:

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/14618

Maybe it's helpful...

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fo3nix Author

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Mar 28, 2007 9:40 AM in response to awado

Thanks.

I have that little tool too; very nice, but doesn't do anything for this particular issue.

Seems to be a firefox issue though, not a system issue. I'll ask elsewhere (i.e., the firefox forums!)

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