Normally when updating the system by default we use the downloads that Apple offers us through the Mac App Store, either for the applications themselves or the system itself. However, it may happen that one day the association that the system makes with the icons for use with the related application becomes corrupted, is incorrect, so a different icon will be assigned or not updated to the new icon of the application itself. .
Fortunately, all these problems have a simple solution that we can carry out with just using the terminal no need for third-party applications as Cocktail or TinkerTool.
To open the terminal we will only have to press SHIFT + CMD + U on the desktop and once inside the Utilities folder look for the terminal and run it. At this point we will have two options, the first is for those users who are in a OS X version 10.5 or higher, in this way we will have to enter the following:
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user
This command will rebuild the icon database in relation to the association with the system, thus restoring the icons within OS X as they should appear.
In the second case, if we are in a OS X version 10.4 or lower, we must enter this command:
/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user
This operation can take from 10 seconds to even the occasional minute, it is important not to close the terminal until we see that the cursor blinks in its normal state, it would be at that point when the execution of said command would have finished to restore the icons.
Hi, I wanted to ask you a question, regarding this article. I recently installed a multimedia player called 5kplayer, from the beginning, without warning all the video files were associated with the icon that this program has by default. I did not like this application very much (I prefer vlc) and I uninstalled it with Appcleaner. So far everything is correct, but when I pick up a video file, I open it either with vlc or quicktime, the icon of that app (5kplayer) appears along with the name of the video file, in the title bar of the window. these players. I saw this article and I did what you write in it but nothing remains the same. I visualized the hidden files of my user and in the library (the folder that is hidden from my user) I found a folder of this happy app. I erased it with a stroke of the pen. I have passed the Onyx app, and nothing keeps appearing the happy "little icon". It also appears when in the finder / visualization / show path bar, in the path of any video file it continues to appear as the default icon.
By the way, the 5kplayer icon is horrible (in my opinion)
A greeting.
Bad luck for us Bitcero, I applied the instructions in this blog but it did not work with the 5K Player virus application, in fact when uninstalling it leaves an ugly and annoying 5K icon in VLC and there is no way to remove it, 5K Player is free but not I recommend installing it since it behaves like a virus, I uninstalled it because every time I played a video with 5k Player from my little snitch computer it warned me that if I authorized sending the playback information to Google Analytics, that is a total invasion of privacy, Let's see if Miguel Ángel Juncos can help us completely uninstall the 5K Player virus icons, including.
Hi, I have a doubt why I installed candybar in yosemite to change the icons of photoshop and chrome and since I never managed to change them, I get it and continue with mine, .. but the next day between the computer and the Finder icons, trash, and Some folders were put as in the previous versions of os x without the flat finish and then I went to candybar and I never managed to put it as it was, I uninstalled it and it did not work and I installed litelcom to modify the folders and icons and only some could put the icons from yosemite that i download pro folders now look horrible the old way.
If you could help me to put them as they were or if your formula works for this case