MD icon for Markdown

[mbbntu]

You could try downloading Onyx and running the maintenance. There may be various sorts of junk that have built up in the system over time. A good clear out may help.

[BLUEFROG]

Agreed. It could be the icon cache or LSRegister or some other such thing under-the-hood.

[Gerry7]

Thanks to both of you. Mbbntu thanks for the intrduction to Onyx which I downloaded and ran… seemed to go smoothly. I’m still stuck with the Icons though! Perhaps SebMacV will have better luck though!

[BLUEFROG]

You’re welcome

Would you like to try trashing DEVONthink’s preferences?
If so…

1. Quit DEVONthink.
2. In the Finder, press Command-Shift-G and paste: ~/Library/Preferences
3. Copy the com.devon-technologies.think3.plist to your Desktop.
4. Open /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app and paste: defaults delete com.devon-technologies.think3 and press Return.
5. Type: exit , press Return and quit Terminal.
6. Relaunch DEVONthink and check the file(s).
7. If it’s still unresolved, try importing a new file to see if the behavior persist on a new import too.

[Gerry7]

Yes I did that. Im afraid that it still shows a green bear! I attach a screenshot

[TodW]

Bear has the option to choose from among different colored document icons.

[BLUEFROG]

Good to know. Thanks.

[Gerry7]

THanks Tried that… No change still have the green gremlins. And TodW is right, I can chager Bear color but not those pesky md icons they remain determinedly green.

[lockwood]

I had this exact same problem with green Bear icons on a fresh install (with Bear and DT installed) of an M1 and eventually got it fixed.

I think the final incantation that worked for me was changing the icon for markdown files on the Mac itself and then following the approach of “trashing DEVONthink’s preferences” listed by @BLUEFROG above.

This does seem like a Mac file association problem with Bear as I freshly setup another M1 a month ago with DEVONthink, but didn’t have Bear installed, which didn’t have this problem.

[Gerry7]

Yes that sounds right to me. Thanks for sharing.

[MsLogica]

I’ve had this problem today, I’m so glad intrepid DevonThinkers have gone before me (also it should be illegal for apps to be allowed to change our default preferences without our consent).

I’ve half-fixed mine by resetting the default app on Mac and running Onyx.

I’m now left with the generic white icon that @SebMacV also has. Like Seb, I also think life is too short to spend hours trying to fix this (unless there is a solution now!). More annoyingly though, the file “Kind” is now listed as “TextEdit document” (the default app I applied to md files - I have no idea what it was previously, I only use md in DT). My rude app had actually changed the file kind to “e-book” (which is how I spotted the issue). Any idea how I get the “Kind” changed back to “Markdown” like it should be? (I’m happy to change the default app on Mac if I’ve chosen the wrong one.)

[MsLogica]

Do you have any resolution to this @BLUEFROG? It’s been bugging me all day (I thought I might be able to fix this system-wide, but Apple is surprisingly silent on what its default .md settings might be.)

[BLUEFROG]

That is controlled by the operating system, not DEVONthink.

1. Locate a Markdown document in the Finder.
2. Press Command-I to open the Get Info pane.
3. Look at the Open With section. What is listed as the default application?

[MsLogica]

It’s TextEdit now. I had to set it as that to fix the naughty app that seized control. I don’t know what it was before (I’d rather it was just whatever Apple set it as before but I’ve not found out what that was). My issue now is that my file Kind in DT is now showing as “TextEdit document” instead of “markdown” or whatever it said before. (Also the logo has changed to the plain white one but I can live with that I suppose.) I like looking at the “Kind” list and I do not like it showing everything as TextEdit files.

[BLUEFROG]

The kind won’t register as Markdown is there’s no associated application installed.

Download MacDown and set it as the default Markdown app.

[MsLogica]

Yey, that’s worked, thank you. It still has a white icon but I can live with that. It says Kind:markdown, like it should. Thanks as ever for your help!

[BLUEFROG]

You’re welcome!

Is it really just a white icon?
Do you have Preferences > Files > Thumbnails > Markdown enabled?

[MsLogica]

You’re an actual wizard! That was not ticked, and ticking it and closing and re-opening DT pushes through the MacDown logo, which is very snazzy and means my markdown now stands out with a nice M. Thank you!

[BLUEFROG]

[dsh1705]

And thanks for telling me about yet ANOTHER app to check out! (shakes fist at cloud)