Missing Quicktime Icon in System Preferences

[Francine Eisner]

Hi guys,

I just noticed that in my System Preferences window there is no Quicktime icon. The text is there, and if I click the blank space above it the Quicktime Preference window opens. So... the file is invisible without its icon (!?)

Does anyone have a suggestion how to restore the icon? I tried: I knew how to copy an icon from the Get Info Window. So there I was, with a Quicktime image on my clipboard but nowhere to paste it..! I don't know where the icons are located for the other system preference panels. I looked in System>Library>Preferences, but none of the pref panels have icons, just that little "flip switch" image.

Does anyone know where the images for the System Preferences are located? Also- can I paste an icon image (as described) in Panther?

 
Francine

[Dreambird]

Hi Franny... I like the avatar...

Have a look at this:
http://www.techsurvivors.net/forums/index....showtopic=16215

Similar problem...

[Francine Eisner]

Hmm...I discovered the "Show Package Contents" feature, but this hasn't solved the mystery. In the Resources folder of all of the Preferences there are a number of .tiff files, which seem to be of the displayed images. In the case of the Quicktime Prefs folder there is also a file called QuicktimePref.icns, which has a "drawer," or two pages. I didn't see an .icns file anywhere else in the Prefs, so I figured that might be the problem.

Well...I tried putting it in the trash, renaming it, duplicating the Quicktime icon .tiff file in the Resources Folder. None of these "fixes" solved the problem of the missing icon (after restarts) so I just put things back the way they were.

The problem persists. I know I'm out of my depth here, but why does the system fail to recognize the presence of the Quicktime icon files? Should I just trash the Quicktime Pref? I do have (and use) the program called "Preferential Treatment," which didn't find any problems with the Prefs.

I should also mention that I upgraded one of the partitions of my external HD to Panther as well. The Quicktime icon is there in the Sytem Prefs panel, as it should be.  

 I hate to be histrionic, but could this be indicative of a more serious problem, such as the "bad blocks" reported (and presumably "fixed") before my upgrade?

Is my beloved HD Flopper-Ann about to expire?

Francine

[Dreambird]

No, I highly doubt there's anything wrong with your HD...
Don't go trashing anything from the packages of those applications either... it might cause more problems!

What you want to try is these 4 steps:

1. Quit System Preferences (force-quit it if necessary).
2. In the Finder, navigate to /Users/ yourusername /Library/Caches.
3. Delete the file “com.apple.preferencepanes.cache”.
4. Launch System Preferences.

If you look at the link to the original thread in the one I posted above you'll see kimmer posted a screen shot that illustrates what you describe:

http://www.techsurvivors.net/forums/index....mp;#entry127558

She runs 10.4.9 I believe and you are running 10.3.9?

Check and see if you have the same file listed in step 3 and if deleting helps restore the icons.

[Francine Eisner]

QUOTE(Dreambird @ Jun 30 2007, 02:12 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Hi Franny... I like the avatar...

Have a look at this:
http://www.techsurvivors.net/forums/index....showtopic=16215

Similar problem...

WOW!!!

Boy, did that fix ever work...! I guess that Software Updates kind of mess with the...er...something or other (hehe).
What is it, really, that causes the problem, and how did anyone figure out how to fix it? I wonder...

BTW, the avatar has a deep symbolic meaning (lol). It's a picture of me at 10 months, taken on the day I first started walking. I was a completely fearless child, and I'm hoping to revert to that atavistic state   .

Cheers,
Francine
 

[Dreambird]

Great! I'm glad that worked...  
I don't know how things get corrupted sometimes but I'm sure glad someone figures it out!  

QUOTE(Francine Eisner @ Jun 30 2007, 12:55 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

BTW, the avatar has a deep symbolic meaning (lol). It's a picture of me at 10 months, taken on the day I first started walking. I was a completely fearless child, and I'm hoping to revert to that atavistic state   .

Cheers,
Francine
 

Sounds like a good thing to strive for...

[jepinto]

Fran-If you're 10 months in that picture, I'm gonna talk to the cosmetic manufacturers about lipstick!  I have a couple of your baby pictures from a long time ago.  Would you like to link to them?

[Francine Eisner]

QUOTE(jepinto @ Jun 30 2007, 09:52 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Fran-If you're 10 months in that picture, I'm gonna talk to the cosmetic manufacturers about lipstick!  I have a couple of your baby pictures from a long time ago.  Would you like to link to them?

Sure...if you have some baby pictures of me I would love this.

w/re to lipstick...What on earth do you mean? I don't get the joke. In my previous avatar picture (now removed) I am wearing lipstick, but when I was a baby my mother would never let me wear it.
Cheers,
Francine

[jepinto]

All I was seeing was your previous avatar, the grown up Fran.  I see babyfran now.

babyfran is an avatar on my hard drive.  I've had it for some years, from a prevous time/version/upgrade.  It is one of the two pictures I have of you, from your avatars.