HD Custom Icons Flickering in Monterey

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candide20 Author

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HD Custom Icons Flickering in Monterey

Exactly as per other postings on this subject ..

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253480966?answerId=256796427022#256796427022

iMac 27″ 5K

Posted on Dec 23, 2023 03:13 AM

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BDAqua

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Dec 26, 2023 04:02 AM in response to candide20

Running Google Drive or any "cloud" backup system?

Nov 4, 2013

I just killed Google Drive out of my Top Right System Tray; Hasn't flashed since. If you're not running Google Drive, click Finder & type console. Launch the app; Under all messages see if you have something logging an error that corresponds to the flashes.

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shaneakus said:

I just killed Google Drive out of my Top Right System Tray; Hasn't flashed since. If you're not running Google Drive, click Finder & type console. Launch the app; Under all messages see if you have something logging an error that corresponds to the flashes.

PROBLEM SOLVED! Thanks for the help on that. Was getting pretty annoying.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/flashing-desktop-icons-and-finder-folders.1667185/

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253599976?sortBy=oldest_first

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candide20 Author

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Dec 26, 2023 05:03 AM in response to BDAqua

Am running google drive & dropbox & calendar might be using icloud although tried to set up syncing wirelessly with ipad. Is only affecting separate time machine HD & one other backup disk although two other disks on desktop have custom icons as well (startup & a scratch drive) which are unaffected. Doubt if google drive accesses the backup or TM drives directly but it might i guess. Thanks for the links tho as it clearly is a thing. Will start with boot in safe mode to see if additional maintenance scripts have any effect. Just happened again but only to the backup & not TM drive that time ..

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BDAqua

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Dec 27, 2023 07:50 AM in response to candide20

Sorry these postings are a bit random...

Go here & choose Edit Profile & Preferences, scroll down to Default thread sort & change to by Oldest...

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candide20 Author

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Dec 26, 2023 11:10 AM in response to candide20

Sorry these postings are a bit random - just noticed backup drive icon flicker exactly on the hour when i know a CCC task is scheduled so the drive is being written to .. system log in console shows :

'AMPDevicesAgent[650]: Entered:_AMMuxedDeviceDisconnected, mux-device:48'

nothing much showing from CCC in logs ..

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candide20 Author

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Jan 15, 2024 12:18 AM in response to candide20

Problem of flickering icons still here. Re: "have you got Google Drive installed?" - don't have Google Drive client locally installed, access it only from Google apps in browser. One drive is being backed-up on the hour by CCC & icon flickers when being written-to. Other drive is for Time Machine, flickering is twice per hour mebbe ..

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candide20 Author

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Dec 23, 2023 03:19 AM in response to candide20

(Am not going through resetting NVRAM etc, would make no difference ..)

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candide20 Author

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Dec 26, 2023 01:02 AM in response to candide20

The flickering sometimes seems to coincide with a notification message top right from calendar ..

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candide20 Author

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Dec 26, 2023 10:03 AM in response to candide20

For info - only app that should write to the backup drive is Carbon Copy Cloner & presumeably it's only the system that writes to the dedicated TM drive ..

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