Stupid Mac Trick

If Mac icons are not showing correctly in general, shut down. Now boot in Safe Mode by holding the Shift key. Log in when prompted and wait till your icons rebuild. Now shut down and reboot normally. This resets caches and paths to their defaults.

In the old days (System/Finder 4 to OS 9), this was known as rebuilding the desktop and is one of the tasks that a Safe Boot also accomplishes.


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