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

[R Martinez]

I agree with Herb that the problem seems to strike randomly. I had icon and QuickLook problems with TS 3.14, but they went away with TS 3.18. I'm one of the lucky many, I guess.

Raul Martinez

On Jun 9, 2013, at 4:02 AM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:

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> On Jun 8, 2013, at 11:11 PM, Thomas Rike <tricycle222 at att.net> wrote:
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>> I thought I was lucky since I did not have any trouble with 3.14 but now that I updated to 3.18 my .tex files no longer have the LaTeX icon. 
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>> I tried everything that I read in the postings for the 3.14 problem with no luck.
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>> 1. Cleaning caches, rebooting, opening TeXSHop, saving a new file. Even the new file is just a plain white rectangle (corner folded). 
>> 2. Rebuilding the launch services database, rebooting, etc.
>> 3. Use CMD i to getinfo select TeXShop to open the file then Change All, but nothing changes in the icon
>> 4. I can paste the icon in the getinfo window and then it changes that file, but does not change any of the other .tex files
>> 5. Deleted all TeXShop.app files from my MacBookPro OS X 10.8.4 and downloaded a new 3.18 from the web. No change. 
>> 5. Rebuilt the launch services database and reverted to default file associations. The .tex files for which I changed the icons (by pasting icons in the getinfo window) now are associated with TextWrangler and those that I have not are TeX source files but have the icon of an executable file for the terminal.
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>> This is driving me nuts. Hope there is something else I can try. I can't paste the icon in 100,000 .tex files that are all over my hard drive with 2,000,000 other files. 
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>> Thanks in advance for any thoughts you have. Tom Rike
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> Howdy,
> 
> An ongoing problem that seems to strike somewhat randomly! Sigh...
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> How did you rebuild Launch Services? Did you try to do a Safe Boot (Hold the Shift Key down while booting and keep holding it down until the login window appears)? That rebuilds more than Launch Services. 
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> The first thing I try is to create a new file on the Desktop before opening one of my Doc folders.
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> I wish there was a single thing but sometimes one thing seems to shake up the OS and sometimes another works and I can't find any consistency.
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> Good Luck,
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> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
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