missing application icon

The updater seemed to fix the problem. I question what really is the problem so I can prevent it from happening. I dpn't want to run the updater say once a week.
 
I often see that installing the combined updater does fix strange oddities that show up in the system from time to time.
And, reinstalling that updater performs significant maintenance to your system, which you had not tried up to now.
I don't expect you will see that same problem again (assuming it was a minor glitch in your system)
Yours was an unusual problem, so the update should take care of that, perhaps permanently. I don't expect you will need to run the updater once a week - and I wouldn't expect you to run the updater again, unless you need to.
Of course, wait a week (or a month) and report back here. I am confident your system will still be fine. But, you are entitled to prove that assumption is incorrect, and we'll try something else.
 
Plus how old is you hard drive? Things like this can point to a something wrong on the old drive.

PS- Plus remember the Finder's Preferences (in the Finder menu select the word 'Go' while holding down the 'option' key and select 'Library', Preferences folder. There you can find Finder's Preferences: com.apple.finder.plist and throw that into your Trash can. Then log out and log back in. This will reset Finder's Preferences and might fix the problem.

Lastly, are you running any programs to change icons?
 
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