hard disk icon still has black stripes through it

[solrac]

Ever since a month ago (or so) my hard disk icon has had black stripes through it. Apple has no known solution for this problem.

I tried restarting, I tried fsck -y, I even recently added 512 MB of RAM (which solved it for someone else). But still no luck.

Sigh.....

 

[JetwingX]

i Get it too but i tend to see it after a graphicaly intensive program (AKA Blizzardd games ) or screen savers (rare) but what i do is log out and in again and it's fine

If you get it bad it will start doing it on desktop icons when you highlight them

Just wondering what kind of computer do you have?

 

[solrac]

powerbook G4 400 mhz, 768 MB of RAM

(just added 512)

and also, it's been persistent on the hard drive icon for over a month!!!!

 

[JetwingX]

change the icon ?

 

[solrac]

i don't have another hard disk icon that looks cooler than the default one

 

[JetwingX]

...

 

[uoba]

It happens to me occassionally, usually during a good long period of work. It doesn't actually affect anything though

 

[JetwingX]

yep yep

 

[solrac]

Originally posted by JetosX
make one...

I don't WANNAAAAA MAKE ONE!!!!

 

[Snowball]

Maybe it will fix itself if you:

Change the HD icon
Log out
Log back in
Select your new HD icon through Get Info
Push delete or Command-X to reset the icon

Sorry if it doesn't work, but I tried it before and fixed an icon problem I had similar to yours...

 

[solrac]

Originally posted by Snowball
Maybe it will fix itself if you:

Change the HD icon
Log out
Log back in
Select your new HD icon through Get Info
Push delete or Command-X to reset the icon

Sorry if it doesn't work, but I tried it before and fixed an icon problem I had similar to yours...

OH.... MY.... GOD...... I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS!!! FOR ALMOST 2 MONTHS MY ICON HAS BEEN SCREWED UP AND THIS ONE SIMPLE PIECE OF ADVICE INSTANTLY FIXED IT ALL!!! IN FACT I DID NOT EVEN HAVE TO LOG OUT. I SIMPLY PASTED ANY OTHER ICON ON THE HARD DRIVE ICON, AND STRANGELY, IT COULD NOT PASTE. IT WOULD JUST MAKE A NON-ICON (INVISIBLE). THEN I HIT DELETE ON THE ICON (IN GET INFO WINDOW) AND THE HARD DRIVE ICON CAME BACK, JUST FINE, WITH NO STRIPES. 2 SECOND FIX. ARRRGHHHHH!!!!!!!

 

[uoba]

You certainly know how to get your message across

 

[ksv]

Originally posted by solrac


OH.... MY.... GOD...... I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS!!! FOR ALMOST 2 MONTHS MY ICON HAS BEEN SCREWED UP AND THIS ONE SIMPLE PIECE OF ADVICE INSTANTLY FIXED IT ALL!!! IN FACT I DID NOT EVEN HAVE TO LOG OUT. I SIMPLY PASTED ANY OTHER ICON ON THE HARD DRIVE ICON, AND STRANGELY, IT COULD NOT PASTE. IT WOULD JUST MAKE A NON-ICON (INVISIBLE). THEN I HIT DELETE ON THE ICON (IN GET INFO WINDOW) AND THE HARD DRIVE ICON CAME BACK, JUST FINE, WITH NO STRIPES. 2 SECOND FIX. ARRRGHHHHH!!!!!!!

Nice

 

[solrac]

sigh...

at least apple could post this on their technote. Currently they say "there is no known fix".

They could post some ... KNOWN FIXES!!! ARGHH!!

 

[TommyWillB]

http://www.apple.com/macosx/feedback/