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	2021-07-17 02:03 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
Message-ID	<iles4bFao1cU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References	<sclih8$sm4$1@panix3.panix.com> <2OudnRjfiZANYW39nZ2dnUU7-T-dnZ2d@earthlink.com> <scs5st$27r$1@reader1.panix.com> <ildmjeF3qm6U1@mid.individual.net> <KfKdnUgNWukSq2_9nZ2dnUU7-I2dnZ2d@earthlink.com>

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On 2021-07-17, Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:
> Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I wonder if booting safe mode would still show this issue in the 
> problematic account. IIRC, macOS' safe mode purges caches.

I can't recall whether it deletes caches or temporarily disables them.
Either way, it's worth a shot.

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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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