[OS X TeX] .tex icons

[Luis Sequeira]

>> 
>> On Apr 5, 2015, at 10:31 AM, George Gratzer <gratzer at me.com> wrote:
>> 
>> All of a sudden, all my .tex icons disappeared. All my .tex files, I?m told, will be opened with
>> TeX.mdimporter. The "Open with? list does not contain TeXShop. If I force it with 
>> ?All Applications? ,  "Open with? changes to TeXShop. Then I click on ?Change All?? 
>> and I?m back where I started.
>> 
>> Also, during this process, the Finder becomes non responsive.
>> 
>> Any way out?
>> 
>> GG
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> This is amazing!!! EXACTLY the same thing happened to me on my MacBook Air!!! I've done all sorts of stuff, including what you tried---with the same outcome, and none of it seems to work.
> 
> On the other hand, double clicking a .tex document still opens it in TeXShop and I'll just have to ignore the icon issue until a solution is found.
> 
> Good Luck,
> 
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)

I would try rebuilding Launch Services database. OnyX can do this very easily.

Luis Sequeira