Re: Weird Altered Icon

FROM : Jonathan Hendry
DATE : Wed Jan 30 23:18:31 2008

On Jan 30, 2008, at 5:05 PM, John Stiles wrote:

> I've seen this behavior even with cross-platform apps. The problem 
> is that the Finder checks to see whether the app is runnable before 
> the copy has completed, so the app looks corrupted from the 
> Finder's perspective.
>
> The workaround is to copy the app with a temporary name for the 
> bundle (e.g. prefix a dot, to hide it), then rename it when the 
> copy completes (e.g. remove the prefixed dot). That gives the 
> Finder a hint to re-check it.
>


I think it does this to newly-downloaded applications that haven't 
been run before.