On Jul 17, 2013, at 21:14 , Peter Teeson <ptee...@icloud.com> wrote: > However from the Googling I did and the experiments I performed it seems I > have to use terminal to > (1) > /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister > -r -domain local -domain user > > (2) re-boot to effectuate new icons > > as I try them out after I have re-built the app. > Is this correct and SOP? Or is there a better way?
No, it's not really the correct approach. This is one of those Internet voodoo things that's been around for years, and survives because rebuilding the Launch Services database does sometimes fix (or appear to fix) the icons being displayed. -- If you change your app's icons and you see the new icons being correctly used, there's nothing you need to do. -- If the new icons don't show up, then you probably have an app bundle somewhere that has the old icons, and Launch Services is choosing the bundle with the old icons to represent your app. This sometimes happens when you have built for multiple configurations (Build/Release/etc) in the past, and haven't yet caused all of them to be rebuilt since you changed the icons. If the icons are displaying wrong, you can try cleaning (or just deleting) the derived data folder, which should delete any old app bundles. You might also have put a copy of an old app bundle somewhere else, and that may prevent your new icons from showing up. -- Occasionally, the Launch Services database gets out of sync with what's actually in the file system, and so you can't fix it by removing files. In that case, you might have to nuke the database with lsregister, but you shouldn't expect to have to do this as a regular thing. Note that if you have multiple bundles with different icon definitions, using lsregister isn't necessarily going to solve the problem. In the presence of conflicting information, Launch Services doesn't really know which to use. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
