I lost my icons !

Pascal

Official visitor
I recently logged out of Mac OS X (after 10 days of continuous use without rebooting... isn't Mac OS X lovable ? ;) ), to do a backup of my Palm device.

When I came back from Mac OS 9, I noticed to my surprise, that all my Classic applications' and documents' icons had disappeared, being replaced by the generic app and doc icons.

No problem, I though : I'll rebuild the Classic desktop ! So I went in the "Classic" panel of the "System Preferences"... only to see that the "Rebuild desktop" button of the "Classic" panel was greyed out.

I haven't been able to regain access to my Classic icons ever since. Booo-hooo-hooo ! :( Here is what I tried :
  • Rebooting in Mac OS 9 to rebuild the desktop
  • Trashing the "LS" preference documents in my prefs folder
  • Checking my disks with Disk First Aid and TechTool Pro
... but nothing seems to work ! (and the "Rebuild desktop" button of the "Classic" panel remains stubbornly greyed out.)

Help me get my Classic icons back !!!
 

Pascal

Official visitor
Well, I hope this won't happen to me...

According to TTP and DFA, it shouldn't however. Both are perfectly happy right now.

(I pray)
 

Pascal

Official visitor
My main disk is partitioned in three :
  1. "Mac OS X" (8 GB), where Mac OS X resides (surprise !)
  2. "Mac Classique" (1 GB), where is the plain vanilla system that I use for Classic
  3. "Courvoisier" (28 GB), where are my real apps, my docs and my stand alone Mac OS 9.[/list=1]Considering testuser's comment, I decided to erase my "Mac OS X" partition and re-install Mac OS X completely anew. It was easy to do, since I didn't have a lot to backup (the "Users" folder, basically). ;)

    This has solved my problem :
    1. I now have my Classic icons back.
    2. The "Rebuild desktop" button isn't greyed out anymore.[/list=1]I guess this means that the problem was not in the desktop databases of the Classic Mac OS partitions, but in a database somewhere in the Mac OS X libraries. But where ???

      :confused:
 

stone

Registered
The same thing happened to me, too: I turned off my computer during vacation and ... no OS9 icons.

It would be absolutely great if somebody has some insightful suggestion of how to solve this. I haven't been able to search Apple's "knowledge base" because of some "unexpected error" so I don't know if they have an article on this.

However, I can't accept the "Windows solution": Reinstall. No way.

/stone:mad:
 
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