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Recently I removed StuffIt from my Mac and now when I have a .zip file sitting on my desktop it has a generic white icon rather than the default .zip icon (which I seem to remember was white with a zip through the middle).
I was wondering if there is way of getting .zip files associated with that icon once more. I realise this is a pretty minor issue, but I'd like to be able to fix this.
After searching the discussion pages I came across this page - http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=733697&#733697 and a user linked the poster to a page that had a terminal command to fix this issue - unfortunately the link is now dead.
Many thanks for any help you may have.

Hi, d.
See my "Resetting Launch Services" FAQ.
Good luck!
Dr. Smoke
Author: Troubleshooting Mac® OS X
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