{"id":117,"date":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","date_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdhouse.org\/betips\/?p=117"},"modified":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","modified_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","slug":"recover-lost-icons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/?p=117","title":{"rendered":"Recover lost icons"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you overwrite, lose, or edit a system-provided icon, there’s no obvious way to get the original back again. Here’s the solution:<\/p>\n

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  1. Open the folder \/boot\/home\/config\/settings\/beos_mime , then navigate to the subdirectory that matches the same supertype\/type as the icon that’s messed up. For example, let’s say the icon for all of your text\/plain files system-wide became corrupted somehow. You would open the folder \/boot\/home\/config\/settings\/beos_mime\/text and look for a file called „plain.“\n
  2. Insert your BeOS installation CD and open the exact same path on the CD.\n
  3. Replace the filetype in question on your hard drive with a clean version from the CD, and you’re done. The change takes effect immediately. <\/ol>\n

    Note that the icons live inside the attributes of these generic-looking files. They’re not visible in Tracker or even in the FileTypes add-on, but they’re there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    If you overwrite, lose, or edit a system-provided icon, there’s no obvious way to get the original back again. Here’s the solution: Open the folder \/boot\/home\/config\/settings\/beos_mime , then navigate to the subdirectory that matches the same supertype\/type as the icon that’s messed up. For example, let’s say the icon for all of your text\/plain files […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-interface"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}