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External app icons defaulting to question marks in dock, upon Ventura 13.3 update

After upgrading to Ventura from Monterey, these Adobe apps placed on an external drive are now defaulting in the dock to question marks.


I tried placing alias, of some of those externally placed apps, on the desktop, before placing them in the dock, and those are defaulting also. To generic app icons (instead of question marks), and also not rendering the proper app icon.



When I click on the app in the dock, to open, or to reveal in finder, it displays the proper icon again. But I don't want to have to do that just to get them to show properly for each app that is defaulting.



Has anyone else experienced this? Any ideas on a solution to have them show as usual?





Screenshot of external drive app icon defaulting to question marks, and alias of some of them placed on the desktop defaulting to generic icons.

iMac 24″, macOS 13.3

Posted on Apr 18, 2023 2:57 PM

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User profile for user: AdobeOneKenobi
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Posted on May 2, 2023 11:41 AM

So I found a consistent solution, finally.


Open up the Script Editor, found in the utilities folder (⇧⌘U), and write a script to quit the dock:


tell application "Dock" to quit


Save as an app bundle, i.e., ".app" as the file extension.


Then go to System Settings > General > Login Items > Open at Login and add the newly created app.


So now on every subsequent startup the dock will quit, which then forces it to restart and refresh the dock. Afterwards the icons will appear as they should.


Until the next OS releases fixes this issue, this will have to do. Hope this helps anyone else having the same issue. Cheers.




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May 2, 2023 11:41 AM in response to dialabrain

So I found a consistent solution, finally.


Open up the Script Editor, found in the utilities folder (⇧⌘U), and write a script to quit the dock:


tell application "Dock" to quit


Save as an app bundle, i.e., ".app" as the file extension.


Then go to System Settings > General > Login Items > Open at Login and add the newly created app.


So now on every subsequent startup the dock will quit, which then forces it to restart and refresh the dock. Afterwards the icons will appear as they should.


Until the next OS releases fixes this issue, this will have to do. Hope this helps anyone else having the same issue. Cheers.




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External app icons defaulting to question marks in dock, upon Ventura 13.3 update

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