Bad alias icons issue

Hi all. I tried to find some help here but nothing helped me. For a long time all my alias icons on the Desktop (where I use them) starts to changes after a period. I have used all Mac OS and as I remember, Sierra, High Sierra, Catalina, Ventura, BigSur, all have the same issue.


When I have a folder with a specific icon, I create the alias on the desktop and them, using daily the OS, they change to a normal folder. And other issue is when I create an alias from a normal folder, created on the OS, the alias changes to a random icon not related with the original folder.


After this issue, sometimes I try to create the alias again but he creates the icon with the latest icon that is not related with the original foder. Like an infinite bug.


There is a way to fix that? Now, I'm on BigSur but happened on Ventura too. Thanks.

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Posted on Jan 7, 2023 01:07 PM

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Jan 15, 2023 12:19 PM in response to Marcello_Cruz

This sounds to me like a bug in the interface. One thing that really got me is that interface customization was severely limited once Apple changed the OS 17 years ago. Utilities that offered icon customization basically could no longer do so, and went extinct. http://developer.apple.com/ and http://bugreporter.apple.com/ will let you report the issue directly to Apple.

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