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Repair broken icon-file type associations System
A friend buzzed me with an icon problem this morning: all of his zip icons had incorrect icons. Not just one wrong icon, but three different types of icons, none correct, and all on zip files (see an example at right).

I hadn't ever heard of this issue before, and I wasn't sure what to suggest as a fix. Almost on a lark, I asked him to rebuild the LaunchServices database, which traditionally is used to fix duplicate entries in the Open With menu. (If you're not yet running 10.5, you need this version of the hint.)

Surprisingly to me, this fixed the problem for all his zip files (and he noticed a few other files' icons had been corrected as well). So, perhaps common knowledge, but rebuilding the LaunchServices database can help with wrong icon associations as well as Open With menu issues.

I've now taken my own advice from the original hint and added an lsrebuild alias to my .profile file, just to make it simpler to rebuild when required.
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Repair broken icon-file type associations
Authored by: amaloney on Jun 17, '09 09:19:46AM
Or, one could use

Onyx or Maintenance
http://www.titanium.free.fr/index_us.html

TinkerTool System
http://www.bresink.de/osx/TinkerToolSys.html

Al Maloney

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Repair broken icon-file type associations
Authored by: kevans on Jun 17, '09 04:55:28PM

Leopard Cache Cleaner has a menu item for this: Rebuild LS database.



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Repair broken icon-file type associations
Authored by: g16l on Jun 18, '09 02:33:10AM

Sometimes I have the same problem. Killing the Finder process (via Terminal.app) immediately solves it.



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Repair broken icon-file type associations
Authored by: Fairly on Jun 20, '09 11:11:18AM

Rebuilding in this way is kind and polite but you can just remove the caches and reboot. Does the same thing.



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Repair broken icon-file type associations
Authored by: binarybear on Jun 22, '09 05:47:23AM

How would one add this task to Macaroni?

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Binary Bear



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