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Diagnose and recover from a coreservicesd hang
Authored by: JimMueller on Oct 18, '03 01:12:24PM
There are several lines of discussion I started or contributed to in Apple's Forums about funky icon activity, and finally Francine Schwieder - who sounded knowledgable - said it was a known bug in the Finder if custom icons are used (ie: preview icons generated by Photoshop, GraphicConverter, etc)

> Message #7.1.1.1: RE: disappearing icons ...? Posted by Francine Schwieder on 03:28am Sep 20, 2003 CDT

No, it's a Finder bug. Here's something I wrote about it for a Jag Problems articele:

Any application that creates individual custom icons, such as Photoshop or PS Elements, can cause the Finder to fail to correctly update an open window containing said custom icons. What happens is that some other custom icon is plastered onto your freshly saved file, rather than the one that should be there. The Finder seems initially to give the icon for the file being saved to the file next to it also, but it has assigned some other icon, seemingly picked at random, as well. You can end up with a folder full of identical and incorrect icons. If you force quit and relaunch the Finder it then gets them right, until the next time you save anything, including another file, whereupon the problem recurs, with everything regaining the incorrect icons, plus yet another file receives a wrong icon. Even moving a file into or out of the open window can provoke Icon Madness. You can use this AppleScript to force the window to actually update the icons correctly, but they revert to an incorrect state each time you do almost anything, such as copy another file, open a file, whatever:

tell application "Finder"
update every file in folder of the front window
end tell

If you're doing stuff requiring you to keep the Finder window open you'll have to repeatedly run the above script. I put a copy of it in my dock so I could just click it there and update the window every time I saved a file. You can save the script in your Utilities folder, name it something like "Update" and give it a custom icon so you can spot it easily when it is in the dock.

Francine

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