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Icons no longer point to apps. How do I rebuild the desktop database?

April 26, 2017apps database desktop icons longer point rebuild

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Icons no longer point to apps. How do I rebuild the desktop database?

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Easiest way: from Finder, go to prefs, turn off hide invisible files. In each disk partition’s ‘Icons’ folder, there should be a file named ‘desktop’. Delete it. That’ll just force a new desktop database file to be created next time you start the Finder; you’ll still have to click on each file that put its rBundles into there to rebuild it. Better way: Softdisk G-S #47 or 48, program I (Nathan Mates) wrote called ‘Rebuilder’. Deletes the desktop file, then scans the drive for all rBundles and adds them.