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walesmd / IconServiceAgent.md
Last active April 18, 2025 13:38
A lot of people are having issues with com.apple.IconServicesAgent. Since this is a very new issue, Google was no help and `man iconservicesd` is even more hilarious. I eventually fixed it, when I was working on a completely different issue (that is still not fixed). The instructions are below and on the Apple Support Forum, https://discussions.…

I was chasing down another issue (slow "Save As") and thought these two issues may have been related (with QuickLook being the common broken link). Unfortunately, my "Save As" dialog is still miserably slow on the initial load; but IconServicesAgent hasn't gone above 30MB and he rarely makes an appearance in the Console!

Some of these steps may not be necessary, but here are all of the steps I took that inadverdently put IconServicesAgent back in its place. Note: all commands are a single-line, if they appear to be multiple that's just the forum formatting.

  1. Check for any QuickLooks related .plist files. In a terminal: mdfind com.apple.quicklook. -name .plist

  2. I only had files at the system level (specifically within /System/Library/LaunchAgents/). If you have others, modify the directions below to take that into account (re-introducing plist files from the system level back up to the user).

  3. Make some temporary directories to store these plist files, just in case: mkdir ~/tmp-quicklook

@FMCorz
FMCorz / atto.js
Created September 25, 2013 08:26
// This file is part of Moodle - http://moodle.org/
//
// Moodle is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
// it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
// the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
// (at your option) any later version.
//
// Moodle is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
@GrahamWalters
GrahamWalters / gist:5848822
Created June 24, 2013 09:21
Reset QuickLook Thumbnail Cache: Open Terminal and run the following commands
sudo find /var/folders/ -name com.apple.QuickLook.thumbnailcache -type d
# Enter your password and hit enter (it will not display your password).
cd COPY-AND-PAST-THE-ABOVE-OUTPUT-HERE
cd ../
sudo mv com.apple.QuickLook.thumbnailcache com.apple.QuickLook.thumbnailcache-BACK
# Restart your computer.
### If anything goes wrong run the following:
sudo find /var/folders/ -name com.apple.QuickLook.thumbnailcache-BACK -type d
@iambibhas
iambibhas / scopes.txt
Last active January 25, 2025 20:07
Sublime Text 2: Snippet scopes
Here is a list of scopes to use in Sublime Text 2 snippets -
ActionScript: source.actionscript.2
AppleScript: source.applescript
ASP: source.asp
Batch FIle: source.dosbatch
C#: source.cs
C++: source.c++
Clojure: source.clojure
CoffeeScript: source.coffee
@cecilemuller
cecilemuller / get_combinations.php
Created February 1, 2013 03:13
PHP: Get all combinations of multiple arrays (preserves keys)
<?php
function get_combinations($arrays) {
$result = array(array());
foreach ($arrays as $property => $property_values) {
$tmp = array();
foreach ($result as $result_item) {
foreach ($property_values as $property_value) {
$tmp[] = array_merge($result_item, array($property => $property_value));
}
@staatzstreich
staatzstreich / ftp_download.php
Created November 30, 2012 12:45
Download a directory from an FTP Server
<?php
// ftp_sync - copy directory and file structure
// based on http://www.php.net/manual/es/function.ftp-get.php#90910
// main function witch is called recursivly
function ftp_sync($dir, $conn_id) {
if ($dir !== '.') {
if (ftp_chdir($conn_id, $dir) === FALSE) {
echo 'Change dir failed: ' . $dir . PHP_EOL;
return;
@kentbye
kentbye / app-store-ratings.php
Created September 17, 2012 23:15 — forked from sgmurphy/podcast-ratings.php
Scrape iOS app review data from iTunes
<?php
/**
* Scrape the number of app reviews from iTunes.
*
* Set the iOS app id and the number of pages to scrape, and it creates a {$app_id}-reviews.csv file
*
* @author Kent Bye <[email protected]>
* Modified and extended from Sean Murphy's gist at https://gist.github.com/1878352
*/
@pitch-gist
pitch-gist / gist:2999707
Created June 26, 2012 22:21
HTML: Simple Maintenance Page
<!doctype html>
<title>Site Maintenance</title>
<style>
body { text-align: center; padding: 150px; }
h1 { font-size: 50px; }
body { font: 20px Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #333; }
article { display: block; text-align: left; width: 650px; margin: 0 auto; }
a { color: #dc8100; text-decoration: none; }
a:hover { color: #333; text-decoration: none; }
</style>
@rudiedirkx
rudiedirkx / download.js
Created May 6, 2012 16:55
Download any File/Blob via JS
/**
* `url` can be a data URI like data: or a blob URI like blob: or an existing, public resource like http:
* `filename` is the (default) name the file will be downloaded as
*/
function download( url, filename ) {
var link = document.createElement('a');
link.setAttribute('href',url);
link.setAttribute('download',filename);
var event = document.createEvent('MouseEvents');
event.initMouseEvent('click', true, true, window, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, false, false, false, false, 0, null);
@paulredmond
paulredmond / function.timeago.php
Created May 1, 2012 18:15
Smarty time ago function
<?php
function smarty_function_timeago( $params, &$smarty )
{
$conversions = array(
'millisecond' => 1,
'second' => 1000,
'minute' => 60,
'hour' => 60,
'day' => 24,