An open community 
of Macintosh users,
for Macintosh users.

FineTunedMac Dashboard widget now available! Download Here

Previous Thread
Next Thread
Print Thread
Icon Restoration
#52135 07/25/19 04:13 PM
Joined: Aug 2009
Likes: 14
ryck Offline OP
OP Offline

Joined: Aug 2009
Likes: 14
Somehow, in all the drive partitioning I've done recently, an old application (Bento) became the default app to open my Excel Files. I resolved that issue by using "Get Info" and resetting Excel as the default app. However, the icons are still Bento.

How do I change the icons back to Excel? (And, yes....once this is done I will be dumping Bento)

Additional Info: Concurrently, all my backup drives had the same problem - the default app to open was changed to Bento. As well, my main drive became quite slow (about 60% efficient according to Disk Warrior)

Current status is that I only have the main drive powered - all backups are either disconnected or powered down.

Last edited by ryck; 07/25/19 04:26 PM. Reason: Additional Info

ryck

"What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits" The Doobie Brothers

iMac (Retina 5K, 27", 2020), 3.8 GHz 8 Core Intel Core i7, 8GB RAM, 2667 MHz DDR4
OS Ventura 13.6.3
Canon Pixma TR 8520 Printer
Epson Perfection V500 Photo Scanner c/w VueScan software
TM on 1TB LaCie USB-C
Re: Icon Restoration
ryck #52137 07/25/19 04:23 PM
Joined: Aug 2009
Likes: 7
Online

Joined: Aug 2009
Likes: 7
In a similar situation, my Time Machine icon became generic when I redid my TM drive. The solution was to do a Get Info on the TM drive. Both the generic and the TM icon appeared in the Get Info window. I dragged the TM icon onto the generic icon and that solved it.

I don't know if this applies to your situation, but it's worth a look.


Jon

macOS 11.7.10, iMac Retina 5K 27-inch, late 2014, 3.5 GHz Intel Core i5, 1 TB fusion drive, 16 GB RAM, Epson SureColor P600, Photoshop CC, Lightroom CC, MS Office 365
Re: Icon Restoration
jchuzi #52138 07/25/19 04:32 PM
Joined: Aug 2009
Likes: 14
ryck Offline OP
OP Offline

Joined: Aug 2009
Likes: 14
Originally Posted By: jchuzi
In a similar situation, my Time Machine icon became generic when I redid my TM drive.

Thanks, Jon. I've added a bit of additional info....all the drives were infected with the same wrong icon for the Excel files. Also, I'm not using Time Machine (as it wants a larger drive than I have available) so I'd be dragging a CCC drive with older data than the main drive.


ryck

"What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits" The Doobie Brothers

iMac (Retina 5K, 27", 2020), 3.8 GHz 8 Core Intel Core i7, 8GB RAM, 2667 MHz DDR4
OS Ventura 13.6.3
Canon Pixma TR 8520 Printer
Epson Perfection V500 Photo Scanner c/w VueScan software
TM on 1TB LaCie USB-C
Re: Icon Restoration
ryck #52139 07/25/19 04:49 PM
Joined: Aug 2009
Likes: 15
Online

Joined: Aug 2009
Likes: 15
If the CCC Excel has got the correct icon, do a Get Info, select the icon, and hit command-C.

Then do a Get Info on each file/folder with the Bento icon, select the icon, and hit command-V.

Nothing more than the old copy and paste.


The new Great Equalizer is the SEND button.

In Memory of Harv: Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. ~Voltaire
Re: Icon Restoration
ryck #52142 07/25/19 07:24 PM
Joined: Aug 2009
Likes: 16
Moderator
Online
Moderator

Joined: Aug 2009
Likes: 16
That is an indiction that the Launch Services Database has become corrupted. I am sure there is a command line command for this but I have always used OnyX or TechTool Pro to do the job. It only takes several seconds and does not require a reboot.


If we knew what it was we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?

— Albert Einstein
Re: Icon Restoration
artie505 #52143 07/25/19 10:56 PM
Joined: Aug 2009
Likes: 14
ryck Offline OP
OP Offline

Joined: Aug 2009
Likes: 14
Originally Posted By: artie505
If the CCC Excel has got the correct icon, do a Get Info, select the icon, and hit command-C....et cetera

That's one of the things that puzzles me. Every single CCC clone has the Bento icon substituted....and it happened post the last CCC backups. I did do one thing different with the last CCC backups, which was to put a recovery drive on each.


ryck

"What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits" The Doobie Brothers

iMac (Retina 5K, 27", 2020), 3.8 GHz 8 Core Intel Core i7, 8GB RAM, 2667 MHz DDR4
OS Ventura 13.6.3
Canon Pixma TR 8520 Printer
Epson Perfection V500 Photo Scanner c/w VueScan software
TM on 1TB LaCie USB-C
Re: Icon Restoration
joemikeb #52144 07/25/19 10:59 PM
Joined: Aug 2009
Likes: 14
ryck Offline OP
OP Offline

Joined: Aug 2009
Likes: 14
Originally Posted By: joemikeb
That is an indiction that the Launch Services Database has become corrupted. I am sure there is a command line command for this but I have always used OnyX or TechTool Pro to do the job.

I have the latest Onyx (3.4.9) so I'll give that a shot. I assume it's just having Onyx run their various services.

Last edited by ryck; 07/25/19 10:59 PM.

ryck

"What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits" The Doobie Brothers

iMac (Retina 5K, 27", 2020), 3.8 GHz 8 Core Intel Core i7, 8GB RAM, 2667 MHz DDR4
OS Ventura 13.6.3
Canon Pixma TR 8520 Printer
Epson Perfection V500 Photo Scanner c/w VueScan software
TM on 1TB LaCie USB-C
Re: Icon Restoration
ryck #52145 07/25/19 11:57 PM
Joined: Aug 2009
Likes: 15
Online

Joined: Aug 2009
Likes: 15
Originally Posted By: ryck
Originally Posted By: artie505
If the CCC Excel has got the correct icon, do a Get Info, select the icon, and hit command-C....et cetera

That's one of the things that puzzles me. Every single CCC clone has the Bento icon substituted....and it happened post the last CCC backups. I did do one thing different with the last CCC backups, which was to put a recovery drive on each.

You can use the icon from /Apps/Excel itself, or does it, too, have a Bento icon?


The new Great Equalizer is the SEND button.

In Memory of Harv: Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. ~Voltaire
Re: Icon Restoration
artie505 #52147 07/26/19 08:00 AM
Joined: Aug 2009
Likes: 14
ryck Offline OP
OP Offline

Joined: Aug 2009
Likes: 14
Originally Posted By: artie505
You can use the icon from /Apps/Excel itself, or does it, too, have a Bento icon?

Thanks, but I went with the Onyx solution in case, as joemike suggested, there might be corruption of the Launch Services. Onyx did the trick and, since I had it open, I got it to run other services too. I also immediately re-did my CCC backups.

On reflection I think the cause may have been all the back and forth with partitioning and then undoing partitions. With the backups and my intended "32 bit drive" on separate drives, I figured it was goofy as hell to leave the main drive partitioned so I restored it to one partition.

Last edited by ryck; 07/26/19 08:02 AM.

ryck

"What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits" The Doobie Brothers

iMac (Retina 5K, 27", 2020), 3.8 GHz 8 Core Intel Core i7, 8GB RAM, 2667 MHz DDR4
OS Ventura 13.6.3
Canon Pixma TR 8520 Printer
Epson Perfection V500 Photo Scanner c/w VueScan software
TM on 1TB LaCie USB-C
Re: Icon Restoration
ryck #52150 07/26/19 02:14 PM
Joined: Aug 2009
Likes: 16
Moderator
Online
Moderator

Joined: Aug 2009
Likes: 16
Originally Posted By: ryck
On reflection I think the cause may have been all the back and forth with partitioning and then undoing partitions. With the backups and my intended "32 bit drive" on separate drives…

It may have been all the back and forth with partitioning etc. but sometimes the Launch Services Database gets messed up without any apparent "help" at all. However, like many things that can go "bump" in the system, as OS X/macOS has matured it happens less and less often — but it still happens, albeit rarely.
Originally Posted By: ryck
I figured it was goofy as hell to leave the main drive partitioned so I restored it to one partition.

👍 IMHO that was a good decision. Two or more APFS volumes on the same drive gets around the most egregious problems with partitioning and is acceptable, but partitioning is too restrictive and too inflexible.

BY-THE-WAY, I have two external HDs that I use for archival data storage that are formatted APFS with multiple volumes (so I can have a different encryption password for each volume) and those are working very well. APFS may not be the optimal format for rotating rust but any performance differences are unnoticeable.


If we knew what it was we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?

— Albert Einstein

Moderated by  alternaut, dkmarsh, joemikeb 

Link Copied to Clipboard
Powered by UBB.threads™ PHP Forum Software 7.7.4
(Release build 20200307)
Responsive Width:

PHP: 7.4.33 Page Time: 0.028s Queries: 34 (0.018s) Memory: 0.6221 MB (Peak: 0.7088 MB) Data Comp: Zlib Server Time: 2024-03-28 17:21:15 UTC
Valid HTML 5 and Valid CSS