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      slbaumgartner
      last edited by

      In case any Mac users were following this topic and wondered why I was getting that icon, I found the answer: when two apps both register for the same file UTI, Finder uses the icon for the most recently installed one. I had installed SketchUp 2015 on Windows in Parallels and let Parallels make it visible in Mac mode. I did this after installing the native Mac version, so Finder chose the Windows icon. Touching the native Mac app to give it a more recent timestamp fixed the problem.

      Steve

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        amarv91
        last edited by

        @driven said:

        @amarv91, can you see the icon from the zipped skp I posted?

        @jeff, cheers

        @steve. that is odd, it's certainly not a windows generated skp...

        what does

        xattr -l <path_to_file>
        

        show for that file...

        I'll see if I can find how I fixed it when I used Parallels, I did have that issue at some stage.

        john

        Hi John,

        Below are the icon preview in different views.
        v1
        v2
        v3
        v4

        It shows in all views except in thumbnail....! πŸ˜•

        Cant figure out why....

        Amar

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          driven
          last edited by

          the icon created by my plugin shows up in all views...
          I'll PM you a copy if you want...
          john

          learn from the mistakes of others, you may not live long enough to make them all yourself...

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            jeff hammond
            last edited by

            @amarv91 said:

            It shows in all views except in thumbnail....! πŸ˜•

            Cant figure out why....

            Amar

            yeah, weird indeed. (I don't know why it's doing that nor have I seen the behavior before) πŸ˜•

            dotdotdot

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              driven
              last edited by

              @amarv91 said:

              ...Below are the icon preview in different views...

              do they show if you adjust icon size?

              @unknownuser said:

              Icon size: Use this slider to dynamically adjust the size of the icons in this folder. The larger the icon, the easier it is to see the thumbnail previews. Of course the larger they are, the more room they take up.

              and, did you reset Finder?
              john

              learn from the mistakes of others, you may not live long enough to make them all yourself...

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                amarv91
                last edited by

                @driven said:

                @amarv91 said:

                ...Below are the icon preview in different views...

                do they show if you adjust icon size?

                @unknownuser said:

                Icon size: Use this slider to dynamically adjust the size of the icons in this folder. The larger the icon, the easier it is to see the thumbnail previews. Of course the larger they are, the more room they take up.

                and, did you reset Finder?
                john

                Yes using slider shows the icon, but only if it is above 128px X 128px.

                I tried resetting the finder. (i.e relaunching the finder)

                And ya please share the plugin which u have...

                Thanks

                Amar

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                  driven
                  last edited by

                  @Amar,
                  I'll PM you a rbz...
                  john

                  learn from the mistakes of others, you may not live long enough to make them all yourself...

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                    joemed
                    last edited by

                    I wanted to see if there was an update on the Icon status for Mac’s
                    Many of my older files created with Sketchup 8 Pro have a custom icons.
                    Once opened in Sketchup 2015 Pro and saved as 2015 or Sketchup 8 they only have generic icons.
                    Is there a plugin or secondary solution?
                    Thanks in advance.
                    Joe
                    MBP i5 2.53 GHz 8GB Mavericks 10.9.5

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                    • jeff hammondJ Offline
                      jeff hammond
                      last edited by

                      @joemed said:

                      they only have generic icons.

                      do you mean generic like the problem in the original post or generic like this:

                      Screen Shot 2015-01-05 at 6.55.59 PM.png

                      ?

                      one is a problem and one is just trimble not providing the proper programming πŸ˜‰


                      fwiw, i recently had a similar problem as the original post only with my webloc icons.. 'fixed' it like so:

                      go to
                      ~/Library and drag the Caches folder to the desktop (just in case.. move it to the trash eventually)
                      reboot computer

                      go to
                      Macintosh HD/Library and drag the Caches folder to the desktop.
                      reboot computer

                      after that, the webloc icons showed their stuff again instead of the blank white.

                      dotdotdot

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                        grayartist
                        last edited by

                        I'm having the same trouble with the icons showing only a blank page. I just updated my system to Yosemite, and have regretted every second of it due to all the programing issues it seems to have with every program I use. I upgraded mainly because I use Podium and the newest version of Podium Walker only functioned for Yosemite.

                        I'm very illiterate when it comes to programing jargon. What ended up being the fix for this?

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