Restored 10.4.10 image exhibits strange behavior

[maccer]

Okay, I ran "Cocktail" and rebuilt the launch services database. Then I clicked on a few dock icons. Most worked fine. When I click on the icon for my printer utility app I got an error message that there was no application assigned to open the document "info.nib."

The drive I restored to is named the same as the original.

[dnanian]

For some reason, your printer icon's alias isn't resolving properly, so drag that off and back on from the original location.

[maccer]

Absolutely! That's how I've been fixing this problem since the restore. This is the 4th dock icon I've found that I've had to drag off and replace.

[dnanian]

Apple has clearly made some changes in the way they resolve aliases or manage the Dock in 10.4.10. We're copying the files as they exist on disk faithfully. But something in OSX's been broken (no doubt as the result of something that was fixed) that seems to be affecting Launch Services and some aliases, on some Macs.

We're looking for a simple case that we can reproduce and send to Apple (if they don't already know about the problem, as they very well might), but we haven't been able to find one yet (I can't reproduce the issue in-house, and it affects a pretty small percentage of people). Sorry for the frustration in the meantime -- I'm hoping Apple's found and fixed it in the rumored 10.4.11...

[maccer]

So basically it's c'est la vie for now?

[dnanian]

Unfortunately, I don't have a workaround except for LaunchServices, or to roll back to 10.4.9 until Apple resolves the issue...

[maccer]

Too bad, huh? Well, thanks for the info and quick reply. I truly appreciate it.