RBXL files on macOS are blank pages and easy to miss

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#1

The RBXL files on macOS are blank pages instead of studio branded icons. I have on more than one occasion thrown these files away thinking they’re junk on my desktop I don’t need. I now check my Trashcan before emptying to make sure I didn’t throw a Roblox Studio creation away.
This change happened roughly two years ago, maybe more.

Screenshot 2023-04-13 at 1.09.02 PM

Expected behavior

I’d love to see some sort of Roblox Studio branding return to the icon on macOS so that these files pop on my desktop. Gone will be the days of trashing something important!

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#2

Can confirm this is an issue on macOS.

I agree with having some sort of Roblox Studio branding on the file icon!

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#3

I agree! If you’d like a simple fix for this problem you can set a custom image for a file.

Command C on the file, then Command V on the icon after you click it

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#4

Recently started using macOS, I experience the same thing

If what you’re saying is true then I can’t believe that they haven’t resolved this issue for 2 years

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#5

I’ve made a few custom .rbxl icons if anybody wants to use them:

Custom Icons

RBLXIcon1
RBLXIcon11024×1024 66.7 KB

RBLXIcon2
RBLXIcon21024×1024 46.3 KB

RBLXIcon3
RBLXIcon31024×1024 97.1 KB

Though there is no efficient way to properly change the icon of all .rblx files sadly.
It seems that Roblox would need to push an update that changes the file icon linked to Roblox Studio supported files.

Similar to how Adobe apps contain their linked icon inside.
image

Also this should be categorized under #feature-requests:studio-features as it doesn’t appear to be a bug.

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#6

A file icon is not a feature, it is standard across every program.

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#7

This should be a straight forward fix. I’ll make an internal ticket.

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#8

this seems (to me) kind of connected to your ticket and maybe it could help -

  • on all my machines, not only is there no icon showing for rbxl files, but when AirDropping to another macbook, the OS doesn’t know how to rename a duplicate Roblox studio file.

For example, if the downloads folder already has “ThisGame.rbxl” in it, when I airdrop that same file again, the mac doesn’t ever rename it to "ThisGame-1.rbxl or ThisGame(2).rbxl , instead it strangely appends numbers to the file extension.
" ThisGame.rbxl 2 " is what arrives in the downloads folder.

seem like file type issues I would guess but i don’t know anything about that OS stuff so my apologies if it’s not in any way related to missing file icons

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#9

If you’re still around, would love an update on this one! Remains a pain to this day to find files!

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#10

Hi. We believe that this issue has been fixed. Can you please verify that you are now seeing a MacOS document icon for .rbxl files? Thanks.

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#11

Only on .rbxl files (not rbxm)
RBXM files are also unlabelled. (“Document”)

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#12

I think that’s intentional because rbxm files aren’t supposed to be opened like a regular file (and since they use the default icon on Windows as well)

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#13

They should be marked atleast. I could’ve sworn this used to be the behavior, but it would be nice if they would open just in a blank file, placed under workspace. I do this constantly because I download RBXMs a lot

#14

Thanks for the feedback. We’ll look at adding the icon for .rbxm’s as well.

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