System File Icons not showing

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From: wade
Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1987 22:20

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Problem: All system file Icons are showing as the default document
icon, with the exception of the Clipboard file, which shows as the
standard miniature Macintosh. Files include: System, Finder, Macintalk,
Scrapbook, Moose Phrases, Calendar file, Macsbug, etc. Rebuilding the 
Desktop does not help.  The files all have the MACS creator flag properly set. 
The system icon (#3) is in the Desktop file as it should be. The special
MACS resource in the Desktop file is there. (For some reason, when you open
the MACS resource you cannot close it again - ResEdit gives a message: 
"bad hex string")  Cutting it out and rebuilding the desktop 
does not help. Copying a given system file to another bootable disk 
causes the correct icon to appear, but when it is copied back to the hard
disk, it reverts to the generic document icon.

System 3.2, Finder 5.3, Macintosh+, DataframeXP 20.

Any ideas?

Wade Blomgren
UCSD ACS
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Subject: System File Icons not showing
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Date: Fri, 3-Apr-87 17:20:41 EST
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