Safari download bar rar file icon show as VLC icon,which associate to The Unarchiver should shows its icon

If you want .rar to be opened with The Unarchiver as default, you can:

  1. Get info on this .rar file
  2. Set file to open with in the info window
  3. Click Change All

The Change All button will make all .rar be opened with The Unarchiver and have The Unarchiver icon on it.


To fix this, we need to Clear Mac OS X's icon cache.Here is how:

  1. To get started, close all open applications and then launch Terminal from Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities. Copy and paste the following command at the Terminal prompt and press Return to execute it:
  2. sudo find /private/var/folders/ -name 'com.apple.dock.iconcache' -delete sudo find /private/var/folders/ -name 'com.apple.iconservices' -delete sudo rm -r /Library/Caches/com.apple.iconservices.store
  3. restart,job done.