Help! Lost all icons in Mac OS X 10.8.2

Help me to bring them back!
Million thanks!

Have you tried Restarting? Sometimes that will fix weird glitches like that.
If that doesn't help, I would download the Combo Installer and install again over the top of what you have.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1581

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Hi Brennahunt,
Thanks for visiting Apple Support Communities.
If your iPhone is not recognized by iTunes for Windows, try these troubleshooting steps first:
iOS: Device not recognized in iTunes for Windows
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1538
If the steps in the article above do not solve the issue, completely remove and reinstall iTunes using the method in this article:
Removing and reinstalling iTunes and other software components for Windows Vista, Windows 7, or Windows 8
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1923
This process should not affect any music or content on your computer, but you may want to
back up your iTunes library by copying to an external hard drive.
When reinstalling iTunes (step 3 in the article above), be sure that you are logged in to your computer as an Administrator:
Make sure you have an administrator account.
To install iTunes or QuickTime, you need to log in as an administrator on the computer. If you're not sure you have an administrator account, you may find this Microsoft article helpful: Windows 7: How do I log on as an administrator?You can refer to the Help documentation from Microsoft, contact your IT department, or visitsupport.microsoft.com for more information.
From:
Issues installing iTunes or QuickTime for Windows
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1926
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Third party app. The vault anyone loose all their information and cant retrieve it? Need help lost all my info.

Third party app The vault anyone loose all their information and cant retrieve it? Need help lost all my info.

Contact the developer of the app.
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I hit something and I lost all my icons. I don't know if that is what they are called really. The little pictures at the bottom of your comp. when you turn it on. They help you get to itunes, iphoto, firefox, ect,. Does anyone have any idea how I get them back? I was trying to force quit when I lost them, if that helps. Thanks.

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Waking laptop from sleep, ffx lost all icons, (bookmarks, navigation, stop/reload, download and extension icons.

windows 8.1 update one. laptop goes to sleep mode, upon starting the laptop up again, i lose all icons of firefox i.e. the forward/back navigation buttons(still there and clickable but now black arrow) download icon, and bookmark icons. all buttons still clickable but lost the black icon in them, all i see is ust white backround and have to try and guess which button is which from memory because even pointing mouse over the icon brings a white box which usually contains info on the button.
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If you're not using private browsing, the History menu should have the option to Restore Previous Session.
But regarding the main issue, I don't know whether anyone has posted about this before. Does it make any difference if you disable Firefox's use of hardware acceleration? This is a standard workaround for incompatible graphics card/chipset driver software. You can switch the setting here:
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Turned on my iPod touch and the font on the screen(date/time) were very large and I lost all of my icons. Thanks for anyone that can help me

Sounds like the Zoom feature of Accessibility go turned on. You can turn in off from the iPod by going to Settings>General>Accessibility>Zoom. You can also turn it off by connecting the iPod to your syncing computer and go to the Summary pane for your iPod under Devices on the left site in iTunes. From the Summary pane select Configure Universal Access in the Options section. The turn off Zoom.

Help, lost all the songs on my iPod when checked the box titled "Replace all items when Autofilling" in my Autofill Settings window.

Help, I lost all the songs on my iPod when I deleted a few songs from my iTunes Library, checked the box titled "Replace all items when Autofilling" in my Autofill Settings window, and then tried to Autofill. Note that I do not purchase songs from iTunes, but rather I rip songs off my own cd's and then transfer the mp3 files to iTunes. And after I transfer mp3 files from my pc to iTunes and then Autofill, I generally delete those files from my pc.
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Help, lost all photos and texts while syncing new iphone

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[solved] Lost all icons after leaving XFCE

...dafuq?!
Since switching from XFCE+XMonad-combo DE to pure XMonad lately, except very few and ugly kind of fallback icons all icons disappeared ("clarity-luteus" theme)! I've been trying to set them via lxappearance and/or by editing ~/.gtkrc-2.0 and ~/.gtkrc-2.0.mine, respectively, but to no avail.
Strange thing is, though the config files say:
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or
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Even restarting X, re-login, and reboot didn't help it.
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Last edited by cameo (2015-02-23 22:54:32)

No.
I also said, if apps have got their own small set of default icons (no matter being a file manager, an office program, a media player etc.) these show up. However they're not themeable at all.
Meanwhile I tried these attempts without any effect
symlinked icon themes to ~/.icons
added e.g. pixmap_path "/usr/share/icons/clarity-luteus" to ~/.gtkrc-2.0(.mine) (for lxappearance)
also installed Tango icon theme for testing
invoked
$ gtk-update-icon-cache
or
$ sudo gtk-update-icon-cache --ignore-theme-index
gtk-update-icon-cache: Failed to open file : Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
respectively
with (or without by commenting) included XFCE stuff into xmonad.hs, such as:
import XMonad.Config.Xfce
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myStartupHook = do
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, logHook = ... <+> logHook desktopConfig
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renamed my XFCE dotfiles to e.g. ~/.config/_xfce4. But the original folder will be recreated anyway.
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Last edited by cameo (2015-02-22 22:09:39)

Lost all Playlists in MAC iTunes AFTER Upgrading Windows iTunes to v.10.7 (via Parallels) - HELP!

I HAVE iTUNES v 10.6x installed on my Macbook Pro - been using for quite awhile without issues. All Updates to iTunes have gone just fine. I also use Parallels Desktop with Windows XP Pro installed on it and within that Windows installation on this Mac, I have installed many software programs -- all okay for over 3 years - no real issues. I also have installed iTunes in the Windows, but never really used the Preferences of iTunes to use its Advanced settings to change the location of the Library to the same location of the Mac's iTunes -- the Library is on an external HD. The use of iTunes in Windows was never really used because I never had the right location of the Library set in Preferences.
About 5 days ago, while in Windows XP, I got an Apple Software Upgrade Notice that a new version of iTunes was available for download -- Version 10.7. Not thinking about it then, I told myself that when I finished upgrading inside Windows that I would exit Windows and while in Macbook Pro's OS X 10.5.8, i just knew there would be an Apple Software Update Notice to also update my Mac's iTunes to version 10.7 also. That's what I planned to do while still in Windows. While installing the update to version 10.7 within Windows, I thought I'd try to set the proper location for the Library file using iTunes' Preferences and Advance Tab. I finished the upgrade to 10.7, went into Preferences and Advanced Tab and did just that and set the correct location on the external harddisk then tried to play songs using my Windows XP's upgraded iTunes. IT WORKED JUST FINE.
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I've been sorting out some files & folders, renaming stuff, that kind of thing. But, for no apparent reason, suddenly all the icons in the folder I was looking in disappeared. Shortly afterwards, all the icons on the desktop disappeared, followed by the icons in the sidebar in the finder. - They are not deleted, I just couldn't see them.
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I went to System Preferences > Accounts, and created another account. - I then logged into this new account, and everything was fine. So, I copied the following files from Library > Preferences and pasted them into my original account in the same place (over-writing the previous files). (You need to copy them to the Applications folder first, or somewhere that is visable on all accounts). After logging out and in again, everything was fine in the original account. (Although I had to change a few things to get things back how I like them). The files to copy are:
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I moved recently and when I replugged my computer, all my iTunes songs were lost. I still have the songs on my ipod mini and I'm not daring to plug it in. I really want to restore my files.
I figure that I need to do this as if I got a new computer and re-install it. However, I am told that ipods are a one way stream from computer to ipod only and not vice versa. I'm hoping someone can help me because I have bought songs that will be lost too. If I didn't have the purchased songs, I wouldn't mind re-importing all 86 CDs of mine (although it would be a pain).
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Perhaps you may still have the music files on your PC -- but not seen in iTunes or the PC.
Do a thorough search of your PC using the tips below:
First - Make sure that you enable your Windows Explorer to view 'Hidden' files:
- Open Windows Explorer
- Select 'My Computer'
- On the main Windows Explorer menu: Tools=>Folder Options=>'View' tab
- In 'Advanced Setting' --> Files and Folders --> Hidden files and folders:
-- Select 'Show hidden files and folders’
- Click 'Apply to All Folders'
- Click 'OK'
Then check using Windows Explorer in 'My Music\iTunes\iTunes Music\...' for folders containing your music (or wherever you keep your music folders).
Also check in your Recycle Bin to see if you accidentally deleted it. If so, ‘Restore’ it back to it’s original spot.
Then try running a search using Windows Explorer (or similar) for files with the extensions of: m4a, m4p, MP3, OR with the partial names of the songs you are missing.
Do all the above before you decide that your music files have been completely erased from your hard drive.
If you can locate the music files/folders, we can get iTunes to recognize it. Try one of these:
If you have a backup iTunes database file available....
1. --- Close iTunes. If you have a backup (or previous version) of the ‘iTunes Library’itl’ database file, then place a copy of that file in the ‘...\My Music\iTunes’ folder (or wherever the current, incomplete file resides).
If no backup ITL file exists….
2a. --- In iTunes choose: Edit==>Preferences==>Advanced tab. Select 'Change' and browse to the music folder in your PC drive (if it isn’t already). Click OK to save that setting.
Then....
2b. --- In iTunes choose: File==>’Add Folder to Library’ & browse to the music folder in your PC drive. Click OK.
Without the ITL file, re-‘Adding’ the music files to the Library will lose you the Ratings, Play Counts, Date Added and Last Played attributes, as well as your Playlists. No real way to recover them if you haven’t made prior backups. Something to consider for the future....
If your music files are truly gone, and you have some or all of your music files on your iPod, these links will give you several methods of recovering whatever songs remain on your iPod; some free, some third-party software, some more comprehensive for restoring playlists, ratings, playcounts, etc. Read them and their associated links before deciding on a strategy that works for you. There are many various third-party software programs that will offer a more robust process, or an easier GUI. Do a Google search for them if the links below leave you wanting…
Don King Resurrected: Deleted files from hard drive (free user steps – music recovery only)
MacMuse: Computer Crashed (free user steps – music recovery only)
Copying music from iPod to computer (a primer on various methods and software)
Copying Songs from Your iPod to a Mac or PC (resource for 3rd party software)
iPodRip Software
PodUtil Software
XPlay (Software For Cross-Platform Functionality & Music Recovery)
XPlay Photo Browser (For recovering Photos)
After recovering your song files, strongly consider developing a thorough backup strategy for just this type of situation.
You need at least three sets of your music:
-- One full set on the PC within iTunes (on internal HD or ExHD)
-- One full set on an separate external backup medium (CD/DVD/ExHD/other)
-- One (full or partial) set on the iPod
Music files on just the iPod and the computer is not considered having any backup. If you cannot store your complete music files on the computer, then create and maintain two external sets.
Backup both the music files and the Library database file (iTunes Library.itl). What are the iTunes Library files?
Here is a post on developing a backup strategy: http://discussions.apple.com/click.jspa?searchID=394618&messageID=1263275

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