Bug in Panther!


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I've experienced this on my ALbook, and I've seen it on friends computers. Icons magically changing in Panther, often several at a time. they often change to a recently opened photo, or icon that is located in the dock. what is causing this? how can we relay it to apple for repair?

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Yes, I even get this too, my hard drive loves to change it's icons all the time... one day it's a hard drive, the next it's an AAC file...

I think Apple will fix this in a future update.

http://www.apple.com/macosx/feedback/

Not sure if that's the right place, but there's always http://www.info.apple.com/usen/panther/ that you could check, or the Apple Discussion Boards.

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Yea, I've seen it too. iPhoto for the most part. If you just Get Info, Tab, and press Delete, it goes back to normal. I've already reported it to Apple.

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I haven't had this exact problem, but I have had programs that I've changed the icon on randomly change back to their original icons, then back to the one I changed it to. This most often happens when I've put the icon in the dock.

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dock icons are cached somewhere wierd. the best method to change them is:

1) delete icon from dock

2) change icon

3) restart or log-out/in

4) replace icon in dock

msword seams to be rather resistant to icon changing unless i do it this way.

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yeah download large files to various folders on the system at once and have a few programs open, aim, safari, and one or two others and icons on the desktop at the least, will start changing

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Heh this has happened to me, but it was kinda weird as my Activity monitor changed (see attachment) to a pic that I've never seen before and also, was kinda worrying. :o

That, if I am not mistaken (which I may be), is the icon for Serial Box (shame on you).

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Heh this has happened to me, but it was kinda weird as my Activity monitor changed (see attachment) to a pic that I've never seen before and also, was kinda worrying. :o

That's the Serial Box icon. Stealing any software lately? ;)

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