Re: Disk has lost its icon?

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc
Subject	Re: Disk has lost its icon?
Date	2021-07-16 15:23 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
Message-ID	<ildmjeF3qm6U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References	<sclih8$sm4$1@panix3.panix.com> <2OudnRjfiZANYW39nZ2dnUU7-T-dnZ2d@earthlink.com> <scs5st$27r$1@reader1.panix.com>

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On 2021-07-16, Brian Gordon <briang@panix.com> wrote:
> In article <2OudnRjfiZANYW39nZ2dnUU7-T-dnZ2d@earthlink.com>,
> Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:
>>Have you tried a brand new macOS user account yet in the same Mac? Also 
>>try another Mac (don't back up though) if you have access to one?
>
> BINGO.  I switched to another user account that is left over from years ago -
> and the icon appeared!  Let's see Apple blame that on the disk manufacturer!

There's probably a corrupt preference file or cache file in your normal
account. You could start by deleting the contents of the
~/Library/Caches folder in your normal account. If that doesn't work,
try removing preference files for Finder, Dock, and so on. These files
are rebuilt from scratch when they are missing. 

For best results, log out of your normal account first, log into an
administrator account, delete the file(s) in question, then log
into your normal account again to have them rebuilt from scratch. If you
want to isolate the problem files, you'll do this in stages rather than
all at once.

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JR

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Disk has lost its icon? briang@panix.com (Brian Gordon) - 2021-07-14 02:35 +0000
  Re: Disk has lost its icon? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2021-07-13 22:58 -0400
    Re: Disk has lost its icon? briang@panix.com (Brian Gordon) - 2021-07-14 03:41 +0000
      Re: Disk has lost its icon? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2021-07-14 09:55 -0400
        Re: Disk has lost its icon? briang@panix.com (Brian Gordon) - 2021-07-14 14:06 +0000
          Re: Disk has lost its icon? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2021-07-14 10:23 -0400
  Re: Disk has lost its icon? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2021-07-14 18:43 +0000
    Re: Disk has lost its icon? briang@panix.com (Brian Gordon) - 2021-07-15 01:36 +0000
      Re: Disk has lost its icon? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2021-07-14 21:40 -0400
      Re: Disk has lost its icon? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2021-07-15 22:10 +0000
  Re: Disk has lost its icon? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2021-07-15 22:27 -0500
    Re: Disk has lost its icon? briang@panix.com (Brian Gordon) - 2021-07-16 14:42 +0000
      Re: Disk has lost its icon? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2021-07-16 15:23 +0000
        Re: Disk has lost its icon? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2021-07-16 20:46 -0500
          Re: Disk has lost its icon? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2021-07-17 02:03 +0000
            Re: Disk has lost its icon? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2021-07-17 00:15 -0500

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