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How to restore file icons when they have gone generic in Mac OS Catalina ?

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    It's absolutely fine & even encouraged to ask & answer your own question - but it should be in the form of a distinct Question [with a nice googlable title too] then a separate Answer [which you can then mark yourself as 'Accepted'] See apple.stackexchange.com/help/self-answer …and don't put 'solved' in the title, the answer being marked as accepted does that job.
    – Tetsujin
    Dec 13, 2019 at 15:19
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    @Tetsujin Ak! makes perfect sense. Will do.
    – Adrian
    Dec 13, 2019 at 15:39

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Rebuild the LaunchServices Cache using this terminal command (Tested and works on macOS Catalina 10.15.2):

sudo /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user

DropBox Note: If you have Dropbox running, you may have to: 1) restart the mac. 2) Pause Syncing and wait for a minute or two. 3) Resume syncing. This should force DropBox to rescan the shares and re-attribute the files and folders.

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I use an application called LiteIcon to change and/or restore icons.

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