Files icons

Hi everyone,
I've got a probleme with the iWork suite. I've deleted the office for mac programs (word, excel, power point) and finally installed pages, numbers and keynote.
Everything wors well but:
The files i create with iWork doesen't shw the program icons (like the pages icon, ecc) and shows the white generic icon
The files i had on my mac with the office extesnsion shows the same problem: a blank icon
Any idea to fix it?
I'm running osx mavericks on a MBPro Retina Aug. 2013
Thanks!
Filippo

I had a problem of similar nature, with respect to .torrent files.  Before, my default torrent client was utorrent, so naturally, all my .torrent files would show utorrent file icons.  But I unistalled utorrent.  Then i reinstalled utorrent.  Upon reinstalling utorrent, however, I noticed that .torrent files are now showing blank icons in finder instead of the utorrent file icons i had before.  That despite the fact that utorrent is now my only and default app for opening .torrent files.
So what I did is to clear my icon cache and that fixed my problem.
You can clear your icon cache by following these steps:
1.  Close all active applications
2.  Run terminal
3.  Type the following command: sudo rm -rf /Library/Caches/com.apple.iconservices.store
4.  Terminal will prompt you for your admin password, so type that it and hit return
5.  Reboot your mac
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