[OS X TeX] TeXShop 3.18 no longer has icons for .tex files

[Herbert Schulz]

On Jun 12, 2013, at 10:24 AM, Josep Maria Font <jmfont at ub.edu> wrote:

> On 12 Jun 2013, at 14:34, R Martinez <rm.tech at mac.com> wrote:
> 
>> I get exactly the same icon behavior as Josep describes. The Column view (command-3) also displays .tex files with new icon.
> 
> Even more, if I manually drag a file to the dashboard, it shows the new icon as well. So only with windows in "icon view" the new icons are not shown. But this happens for some files or folders only:
> 
> In "icon view" mode, some folders show all icons, others not.
> 
> A file showing the new icon in all views gives:
> 
> kMDItemContentType             = "edu.uo.texshop.tex"
> kMDItemFSCreatorCode           = "TeXs"
> kMDItemFSTypeCode              = "TEXT"
> kMDItemKind                    = "TeX File"
> 
> while one showing the generic document icon gives:
> 
> kMDItemContentType             = "org.tug.tex"
> kMDItemFSCreatorCode           = "TeXs"
> kMDItemFSTypeCode              = "TEXT"
> kMDItemKind                    = "TeX Document"
> 
> Very weird...
> 
> JMaF

Howdy,

Please make a backup of your system and then force a rebuild of the Spotlight (meta-data) database. Follow the method I gave before. Remember it will take a while.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)