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After I've downloaded an application from the Internet and dragged it into my Applications folder it is shown with a "prohibited" crossed out circle icon. When I click on it the first time I get a popup dialog confirming that I want to run this program that was downloaded from the web.

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That's all well and good, but even after I click OK the icon still is stuck like this until I log out and/or reboot the system. Is there any way to get it to display the application's real icon without rebooting?

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Drag the app to your desktop first, and wait for it to finish loading from the .dmg file. It will get its proper icon. Then drag it to the Applications folder. You could drop it on the alias in the .dmg, if one is supplied.

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In Terminal, try this:

killall -KILL Finder

This restarts the Finder, and that should make Finder refresh everything, including icons.

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That did restart my dock but it didn't fix the icon. – John Kugelman Mar 5 '10 at 4:43
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