I've got Sheepshaver running just fine (Mac OS 9.0.4, on Snow Leopard), but it sees application icons and file icons as generic. Is this a known problem? I've tried "rebuilding the desktop" (remember that?), but it didn't help. The file associations are working - that is, I double-click a file and the right app opens it. But the icons aren't right. Thx!

This is for applications brought in from my shared folder. It looks fine for applications included in the OS.

Which version of SheepShaver are you using? If you use an older version, try the new build (see sticky topic in this forum).

This is true with 2.3 20090823 or 2.3 20091018.

It's true for both, but I would suggest you take the latest one, from 20091018.

Best,
Cat_7

It is not possible to do a desktop files rebuild for the "Unix" volume (the shared folder), so rebuilding the desktop will not correct icons of applications that reside in the "Unix" volume (the shared folder).

Note that also files dragged from the "Unix" volume onto the desktop are still on that volume. In MacOS (different from MacOSX) the Desktop is not one single location. Each volume has its own desktop and what you see is the combined desktops of all mounted volumes.

In MacOS in SheepShaver, make sure the application files are copied to the startup volume or to another volume that was added as disk image to the volumes list in preferences. Then rebuild the desktop.

To rebuild the desktop, launch SheepShaver and press option-command keys as soon as you see the extension icons marching along the bottom of the SheepShaver screen/window. Keep the keys pressed until you see the dialog asking if you want the desktop to be rebuild.

(If you used an earlier version of SheepShaver than the ones you mention to transfer the files, you may need to again transfer the files using the shared folder.)

That explains it perfectly! Excellent answer - I understand, and of course your advice worked. To get the icons, I copied from the shared volume onto the real volume (the startup volume) and did a desktop rebuild.

Amusingly, as a side benefit, this also caused the copy of the app and its documents on the Unix shared volume to achieve the correct icons.

Running the app from from the startup volume also solved a mysterious file system error I had been getting, so I'll work that way from now on. Thanks for clarifying this!