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Re: Disk has lost its icon?

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Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, easy to test the theory out. It would help figure out how to fix it. ;)
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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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