My mac shows incomplete folder icon

I was using MATLAB and it crashed suddenly (while using the java plug-in). After that I restarted the computer but the desktop show incomplete icons for folders. Only the top 10% of the icon is visible and the rest is all transparent. In Finder, the problem is similar except that the bottom part shows a repeating rectangular pattern. Using OSX 10.10. Images attached

Hello!
You could try to start with these two steps:
Start your computer in safe mode. That is: shut down your Mac and when you power it back on keep the [shift]-key pressed until you see the large Apple-logo with a loading bar. After a longer-than-normal boot you will see a login-window with the text safe mode. After logging in, see if the issue is resolved. Reboot your OS X normally whether it's resolved or not. Issue solved?
If not: clear out your user cache. Quit all running apps and open the Finder. Locate the menu called "go" in the top left corner of your computer display. Click "go > go to folder" and copy-paste:
~/Library/Caches
Click [go] Trash the entire content from this folder (likely to be an enormous amount of folders) and reboot your OS X.
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Sometimes when starting up my iMac it shows only a folder icon with a question mark in it. Nothing happened. Only when start up again it runs ok.
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Hans

That's an indication your Mac can't find a system folder to boot from.
Open System Preferences > Startup Disk
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1352
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Tips
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2364921&#2364921
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I bought my third iPod at the end of summer, an iPod photo 60 GB. It has worked perfect until 2 days ago, when it suddenly froze. I rebooted it, but the display showed a sad iPod. Checked the support files and tried to put it into Disk mode, but it didn't work, so I just left it in the charger overnight, which, surprisingly enough, managed to solve the problem for a while. When I woke up, the iPod was OK.
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