MGG 331: Missing Icons, Photo Management, Data Migration, More

Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

Technology, How To, Education, News, Tech News

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2011

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Like clockwork, indeed, your two favorite geeks are back for this week’s Mac Geek Gab episode. John and Dave help you answer your questions, like restoring missing Finder icons, deleting directly from Smart Playlists in iTunes, managing your photos with just an iPad and a camera (and not your computer!), migrating your data to a new computer without Migration Assistant (and why), slowing disks, and more. This episode’s free today, folks, so subscribe (also free), download, and enjoy!

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0:00.0	The Mac Observers Mac Geek Ab Number 331 from Monday, May 16, 2011. Go readings folks and welcome to the Mac Observers Mac Geek Cab the show where you
0:28.1	send in your questions you send in your tips we answer your questions and together
0:31.8	we all learn a little something more about
0:34.4	the Mac and Apple here in Durham, New Hampshire I'm Dave Hamilton.
0:38.0	Here in Fearful Connecticut, John F. Braun.
0:41.0	How you doing today, John?
0:43.0	I'm kind of down.
0:45.0	It's kind of a...
0:46.0	It is a dreary day here.
0:48.0	It's a dreary, yeah, I think the whole area is getting where we're going to get rained on.
0:52.0	So yeah, it makes it kind of dreary, but I'm happy to do the show. So that kind of offsets it.
0:57.4	Then let's dive in. Ken writes, when I open the finder and go to my applications folder and view in list or column view, all the
1:07.0	apps are present. But when I go to icon view, I get an empty folder that indicates 255 items, but no icons appear.
1:15.0	It is the same on my super duper backup and when I go to time machine I get the same
1:20.4	result as well. I've only done two things of consequence since
1:24.7	discovering this. I updated iFoto and I used a clean my Mac program to gain some
1:30.3	space. I'm using the latest version of Snow Leopard on a dual core
1:34.3	Z on Mac Pro with 14 gigs of RAM. When I click on the application icon in the
1:38.7	dock, all the apps are present and the machine runs normally in applications open.
1:43.0	They also open from the list and column views from the applications folder.
1:47.0	Help! Who stole my icons?
1:50.0	So, John, I started thinking about this and I...
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