Finder folder icons look like document and image files
I've got an annoying issue for a couple of weeks now. My folder icons got corrupted from time to time:
Left side is the view I get when I'm switching between views, but when I open finder or navigate to a folder I see its content as on the right side of the image. When I have multiple files and subfolders in a folder, icons of the folders appear as icons of images, and documents around them...
I have the latest updates and I've never used any app that customises Finder.
Has anybody experienced something similar?
Update: I have Tuxera NTFS 2012.3.4 and OSXfuse 2.5.4 installed. Removing OSXfuse and disabling Tuxera doesn't affect this behaviour.
Update: Same behaviour with OSX 10.8.3
Solution 1:
Try resetting the Launch Services database. Dig into your Utilities folder and paste this into Terminal:
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user
You may need to restart the Dock and Finder to see if it's worked:
killall Dock; killall Finder
Alternatively, just reboot after you've reset the Launch Services database.