Rasmus Faber Posted November 23, 2021 Share Posted November 23, 2021 Hey guys, damn that new white Logic Pro project icon makes it super hard to quickly find the project icons among all other icons. Anyone know of a way to get the old look back? (to change the look of all icons of a specific typ I suppose) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fisherking Posted November 23, 2021 Share Posted November 23, 2021 it's a mess; am sure we're supposed to get a thumbnail of the actual project, but my mac is littered with these generic icons. so, i have some of both. reported it (in feedback assistant), and making the best of it (for now)... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted November 23, 2021 Share Posted November 23, 2021 I started messing with the icon files inside the Logic Pro app package and changing the resource file that lists the default icon but I ended up with .. this. If someone else brave enough feels like trying it (considering the risk make sure you have a backup of the Logic Pro app package first, or that you can easily redownload it): 1. Control-click the Logic Pro app and choose Show Package Content. 2. Navigate to /Contents/ and open info.plist for example in BBEdit. 3. Find CFBundleTypeIconFile and either change the string below to your new icon name or change the icon file listed in the string below. So far... I wasn't successful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rasmus Faber Posted November 23, 2021 Author Share Posted November 23, 2021 I wonder if the fellas at LPX Colorizer has a way of doing it? Will email them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValliSoftware Posted November 23, 2021 Share Posted November 23, 2021 I started messing with the icon files inside the Logic Pro app package and changing the resource file that lists the default icon but I ended up with .. this. error message.jpg If someone else brave enough feels like trying it (considering the risk make sure you have a backup of the Logic Pro app package first, or that you can easily redownload it): 1. Control-click the Logic Pro app and choose Show Package Content. 2. Navigate to /Contents/ and open info.plist for example in BBEdit. 3. Find CFBundleTypeIconFile and either change the string below to your new icon name or change the icon file listed in the string below. So far... I wasn't successful. Hey David Are you sure that BBEdit is able to handle editing the version of the plist that Logic is using. My Hype4 has a xml based plist which is all text but Logic now uses a newer version of a plist. If I make changes to the Logic plist and save it with XCode, I don't get the error message where it says to redownload the application. Actually, this was never allowed before, making changes to the plist file but apparently this has changed. I did this before and I would get the error that you're receiving. But now Logic allows that. This is interesting because now you can run multiple copies of Logic by setting the Application prohibits multiple instances to NO. People who would be interested in this are people who are using orchestra templates, now you can load an orchestra "template" in aother copy of Logic and just send the midi from your main Logic to that loaded orchestra template in another copy of Logic, or you can have MIDI regions in the second copy of Logic. You'd have to decide what's best for you. I wonder if that's why they did that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValliSoftware Posted November 23, 2021 Share Posted November 23, 2021 Hey guys, damn that new white Logic Pro project icon makes it super hard to quickly find the project icons among all other icons. Anyone know of a way to get the old look back? (to change the look of all icons of a specific typ I suppose) Can you do me a favor and just post the steps where I can finally see this "white Logic Pro project icon". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fisherking Posted November 23, 2021 Share Posted November 23, 2021 the icon is generic, and should be (or course) a thumbnail of the actual project. quick look will preview the file correctly anyway. so, between the file name, and quicklook, am not having a problem with it... it just needs to be fixed. i have a bunch of project folders that look like this: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted November 23, 2021 Share Posted November 23, 2021 Hey DavidAre you sure that BBEdit is able to handle editing the version of the plist that Logic is using. Infoplist.png My Hype4 has a xml based plist which is all text but Logic now uses a newer version of a plist. If I make changes to the Logic plist and save it with XCode, I don't get the error message where it says to redownload the application. Aaaah!! Very good to know, thank you for pointing that out. You're most likely right since even after undoing and saving again, I got the same prompt (and ended up having to delete and redownload Logic). But in any case the issue now is that the icon Logic is seemingly pointing to looks nothing like that white icon we're seeing in the finder. So I'm still unsure how to change it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rasmus Faber Posted November 23, 2021 Author Share Posted November 23, 2021 Ok this thread is branching out into different subjects, but seems related, so if I can add to the confusion: 1. I'm very interested to run many instances of Logic but the way to do it flew over my head a bit. Can someone simplify? 2. Since Logic 10.7 (or since upgrading to Big Sur? Not really sure) I've had Logic upon "crashing without crashing" sometimes opening a 2nd instance of itself, after Terminal has been automatically opened and starting some process. Anyone recognizing this? 3. Weird, I have NO projects at all showing that preview look, all of my icons are white.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValliSoftware Posted November 23, 2021 Share Posted November 23, 2021 the icon is generic, and should be (or course) a thumbnail of the actual project. quick look will preview the file correctly anyway. so, between the file name, and quicklook, am not having a problem with it... it just needs to be fixed. i have a bunch of project folders that look like this: Screen Shot 2021-11-23 at 2.20.45 PM.png As you can see, I have older 2018 projects that display the white icon but you're picture shows different icons. Can you display your folders again but include the Date Modified and Kind columns. I'm pretty sure the Kind column is different on your system regarding the icon display. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValliSoftware Posted November 23, 2021 Share Posted November 23, 2021 But in any case the issue now is that the icon Logic is seemingly pointing to looks nothing like that white icon we're seeing in the finder. So I'm still unsure how to change it. I just took another look at the plist file and saw an entry that might explaine what's going on. Even though there's an entry for an Icon, notice there's now a key Use system generated icons. Notice it's set to YES. You might have to change that to NO then the entry in that particular document type, it's icon will be displayed. I think, I could be wrong on this, but I think the reason there's a Use system generated icons is because of the following what we can do on our system, change the appearance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostmemories Posted November 23, 2021 Share Posted November 23, 2021 I have the same problem. I discovered that if I close the macOS session, and then log on again, all the icons return to normal with the logic project view instead of the generic icon. Is it the same for you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted November 23, 2021 Share Posted November 23, 2021 I just took another look at the plist file and saw an entry that might explaine what's going on.Infoplist.png Even though there's an entry for an Icon, notice there's now a key Use system generated icons. Notice it's set to YES. You might have to change that to NO then the entry in that particular document type, it's icon will be displayed. Yes! I think you found it then. I'm sure all you need to do is set it to NO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fisherking Posted November 24, 2021 Share Posted November 24, 2021 am wondering about this, as some of those icons turn into thumbnails, and some turn back to the generic icon. anyway, i think apple needs to fix this (& i reported it); i can't imagine changing every project plist when this happens... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted November 24, 2021 Share Posted November 24, 2021 am wondering about this, as some of those icons turn into thumbnails, and some turn back to the generic icon. anyway, i think apple needs to fix this (& i reported it); i can't imagine changing every project plist when this happens... There's only one plist to change, the one inside the app package. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fisherking Posted November 24, 2021 Share Posted November 24, 2021 am wondering about this, as some of those icons turn into thumbnails, and some turn back to the generic icon. anyway, i think apple needs to fix this (& i reported it); i can't imagine changing every project plist when this happens... There's only one plist to change, the one inside the app package. ah, got it... thx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted November 25, 2021 Share Posted November 25, 2021 Even though there's an entry for an Icon, notice there's now a key Use system generated icons. Notice it's set to YES. You might have to change that to NO then the entry in that particular document type, it's icon will be displayed. So I'm pretty sure that's the only thing needed to make this work. However I do not have Xcode installed and it takes too much room for my tiny internal drive to install right now. Would you mind changing that property to NO on an info.plist file and upload it here to share it with us? That would be great ! Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValliSoftware Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 Even though there's an entry for an Icon, notice there's now a key Use system generated icons. Notice it's set to YES. You might have to change that to NO then the entry in that particular document type, it's icon will be displayed. So I'm pretty sure that's the only thing needed to make this work. However I do not have Xcode installed and it takes too much room for my tiny internal drive to install right now. Would you mind changing that property to NO on an info.plist file and upload it here to share it with us? That would be great ! Thank you. A couple of things I found out about this. I actually had a folder like fisherking where I had different icon pictures for the same "Kind". What I did was re-index with Spotlight my "music" folder only. I rebooted and this was the result. So because of this I saw this inside of the Logic app. I think that Spotlight program is now handling the display of icons. I'm guessing at this point since there's no documentation on this. BTW - I attached the requested file. Info.plist.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 BTW - I attached the requested file. Thanks so much! I'll give it a try later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fisherking Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 this issue isn't so simple. i have a folder with 4 recent projects; all showed the generic white icon. after rebooting, 3 showed the correct thumbnail. i opened one of those 3, did some work. after saving it, it's now the white icon again. so, the problem is not consistent... anyway, just mentioning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dox Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 All my files are represented with thumbnails. I have no white Logic icons in the Finder at all. But I have found them in the Files Browser in Logic - see attachment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fisherking Posted December 8, 2021 Share Posted December 8, 2021 GOOD NEWS!!! all the icons now display correctly (on monterey 'final release' 12.1); glad to see this finally fixed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fisherking Posted December 8, 2021 Share Posted December 8, 2021 ...and i spoke too soon. ALL my projects on my internal drive prior to updating the OS last night now show the correct thumbnails. but a project i JUST started shows..a generic white icon. and projects on my external drive are mixed. so... not sure what's happening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostmemories Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 ...and i spoke too soon. ALL my projects on my internal drive prior to updating the OS last night now show the correct thumbnails. but a project i JUST started shows..a generic white icon. and projects on my external drive are mixed. so... not sure what's happening. Every time I log off or restart the computer, all thumbnails return to normal and replace the generic white icon appeared on some projects. Seems to be a realtime update bug of Logic's thumbnails, I don't know if the bug is from Logic itself or from Monterey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fisherking Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 ...and i spoke too soon. ALL my projects on my internal drive prior to updating the OS last night now show the correct thumbnails. but a project i JUST started shows..a generic white icon. and projects on my external drive are mixed. so... not sure what's happening. Every time I log off or restart the computer, all thumbnails return to normal and replace the generic white icon appeared on some projects. Seems to be a realtime update bug of Logic's thumbnails, I don't know if the bug is from Logic itself or from Monterey. yeah, am seeing the same thing. hope it gets sorted in my lifetime (but at least it doesn't affect working in logic...)... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dox Posted December 10, 2021 Share Posted December 10, 2021 Is it a bug? My system has the correct thumbnails only. No white icons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fisherking Posted December 10, 2021 Share Posted December 10, 2021 Is it a bug? My system has the correct thumbnails only. No white icons. if it was a bug, we'd all (or most of us) have the issue. you're ok with new projects? anyway, many of my projects show correctly, and many others... don't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dox Posted December 10, 2021 Share Posted December 10, 2021 Yeah. All projects new and old have the correct Thumbnail. No white icons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fisherking Posted December 10, 2021 Share Posted December 10, 2021 and you're also on 10.7 on monterey. so, wonder what the common denominator is? anyway, hope apple sorts this out (either with the app or the OS). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dynamic_Notes Posted December 10, 2021 Share Posted December 10, 2021 Well yeah I have this going on as well. Havn't looked closely enough yet to see if I can find a pattern to it but Ive just noticed browsing to song files from Logic showed all white icons, but browsing through the Finder showed thumbnails. No different after updating yesterday to 10.7.2. It seems to be a random thing as far as I can see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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