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Messages Badge Issue

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GaresTaylan

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Nov 11, 2009
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Hey everyone. On Messages, Ive encountered an issue where the icon in the dock shows I have 1 unread message. Thing is, I have no open messages. Im not sure if I closed one without clicking on it first or what.

From what Ive noticed, if I have say, 4 unread messages and I open the app up, then click on the message window containing those 4 unread messages... it will drop the number on the badge. If I click out of messages, the number goes back up. Its like its not permanently marking them as read when I click that message box.

Any ideas???
 
Watabou

Watabou

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Feb 10, 2008
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This has been happening to me too recently (on Lion).

I found a sort of a temporary fix though: Open up Terminal and type: "killall Dock" without the quotes and that fixes the problem for me.
 
3bs

3bs

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May 20, 2011
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Dublin, Ireland
Watabou said:
This has been happening to me too recently (on Lion).

I found a sort of a temporary fix though: Open up Terminal and type: "killall Dock" without the quotes and that fixes the problem for me.
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That does fix it but it's annoying having to keep doing it and it happens several times a day to me.
 
3bs

3bs

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May 20, 2011
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Watabou said:
Are you running Lion? I think the Messages app in Mountain Lion fixes the problem. I don't have this problem anymore.
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It happened to me in Lion and now also in Mountain Lion. I did an upgrade, not a clean install so that might be the issue but Apple shouldn't expect everyone to be doing a clean install anyway.
 
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