Computer: iMac i7 (Mac OS 10.6.3---Snow leopard)

My iWorks 09 and TextEdit icons have disappeared on saved documents. I have
deleted and reinstalled iWorks 09 several times thinking that the problem may
have been a damaged file. This has not helped and the icons have not returned to
the documents.  Since the TextEdit document icons have also disappeared, I
though that the problem may be with preference files of both iWorks and
TextEdit. I then deleted the plist files for both programs and it still did not
help after restart. The dock icons are present and have not disappeared----no
problem there.

Any help would be appreciated.


JD

JD <JD_member@newsguy.com> wrote:


> My iWorks 09 and TextEdit icons have disappeared on saved documents. 

Does iWorks open when you double-click one of those iWorks documents?
If not, you probably have a problem in your Launch Services database.
You may rebuild this database with the following Applescript (pasted as
a quotation to preserve the script lines, so you have to unwrap the
lines and then remove the > after pasting into the Applescript editor)

> ignoring application responses
>       tell application "Finder"
>               delay 2
>               quit
>       end tell
> end ignoring
> delay 5
> tell application "System Events" to set running_applications_ to get 
name of every application process
> if running_applications_ contains "Finder" then do shell script 
"killall Finder"
> do shell script "/System/Library/Frameworks/
ApplicationServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/
Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user"
> tell application "Finder"
>       delay 2
>       activate
> end tell
> tell me to activate
> display dialog "The Launch Services rebuild is now complete." 
buttons {"OK"} default button 1 with icon note

-- 
Hans Rijnbout
Utrecht, Netherlands

In article <1jj4dem.4paiko1ffrbckN%jrijnb@xs4all.nl>, Hans Rijnbout says...
>
>JD <JD_member@newsguy.com> wrote:
>
>
>> My iWorks 09 and TextEdit icons have disappeared on saved documents. 
>
>Does iWorks open when you double-click one of those iWorks documents?
>If not, you probably have a problem in your Launch Services database.
>You may rebuild this database with the following Applescript (pasted as
>a quotation to preserve the script lines, so you have to unwrap the
>lines and then remove the > after pasting into the Applescript editor)
>
>> ignoring application responses
>>       tell application "Finder"
>>               delay 2
>>               quit
>>       end tell
>> end ignoring
>> delay 5
>> tell application "System Events" to set running_applications_ to get 
>name of every application process
>> if running_applications_ contains "Finder" then do shell script 
>"killall Finder"
>> do shell script "/System/Library/Frameworks/
>ApplicationServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/
>Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user"
>> tell application "Finder"
>>       delay 2
>>       activate
>> end tell
>> tell me to activate
>> display dialog "The Launch Services rebuild is now complete." 
>buttons {"OK"} default button 1 with icon note
>
Hello Hans,

Thank you for answering my post. When I double click on a iWorks document it
does open. I noticed that when I save an iWork document that the icon appears
briefly (about 0.5 seconds) then disappears. I wonder if the directory structure
is at fault? I am waiting for a new snow leopard edition of DiskWarrior to check
this out.

JD