Almost 3 weeks of owning my Mac and I think I've already messed up my Dock.

[Garrettmania]

OK, so I was sitting in class and my friend was looking at EasterEggs for different OSs and saw one for the Mac and insisted I try it. It was the Dock "suck" effect (vs the genie effect). So I did it, first time I misspelled the terminal command and hit enter before I noticed it. Normally I would read the command before entering it but I've been feeling really jittery and ill so I just didn't care. I was able to use the same command to get it back to genie because I like genie better, but now when I close windows it doesn't do it's little fade away thing, it just closes. Like on Windows (bleh).
Is there a way to fix this or restore all default settings? Or do I have to reinstall the OS (hopefully not ) But if I must reinstall the OS, can I do so without uninstalling my bootcamp partition?
Sorry I'm such an idiot.
Garrett

 

[wwooden]

Closing a window never causes any effect to happen, they just close and disappear. I'm not sure what effect you're talking about.

 

[Garrettmania]

Closing a window never causes any effect to happen, they just close and disappear. I'm not sure what effect you're talking about.

I dunno, it would like lean forward and fade out.
At least that's what I remember it doing.

 

[jackiecanev2]

Try preferences > dock,

set to genie
check animate opening windows

It may or may not set your settings properly, depending on how you used terminal and what you input. What did you plug into terminal? As a side note, it's best not to mess with things in terminal unless you understand how they work. There's danger in just blindly copying terminal commands without a little knowledge about properly using CLI's/Unix.

 

[Garrettmania]

Try preferences > dock,

set to genie
check animate opening windows

It may or may not set your settings properly, depending on how you used terminal and what you input. What did you plug into terminal? As a side note, it's best not to mess with things in terminal unless you understand how they work. There's danger in just blindly copying terminal commands without a little knowledge about properly using CLI's/Unix.

defaults write com.apple.dock mineffect -string suck

Yes, I'm an idiot.

 

[Garrettmania]

Maybe I'm going crazy and I just THINK that it had an effect
But should that command harm my system?

 

[patrick0brien]

Maybe I'm going crazy and I just THINK that it had an effect
But should that command harm my system?

-Garrettmania

Thankfully, it seems you wrote to the preferences file.

Ok, so maybe you foobed it a bit. Not to worry.

Trash it to reset to default.

Go to "home">Library>Preferences
Locate com.apple.dock.plist
Trash it
Empty trash
Log out and login again (or restart)

If that didn't reset it to default, trash com.apple.dock.db
DONT empty the trash until you can confirm you are back to good

 

[Garrettmania]

-Garrettmania

Thankfully, it seems you wrote to the preferences file.

Ok, so maybe you foobed it a bit. Not to worry.

Trash it to reset to default.

Go to "home">Library>Preferences
Locate com.apple.dock.plist
Trash it
Empty trash
Log out and login again (or restart)

If that didn't reset it to default, trash com.apple.dock.db
DONT empty the trash until you can confirm you are back to good

Thanks! That got my dock to do the Genie again.
I had actually looked for that file before I came on here and asked about it but spotlight didn't find it.
I think the whole close window effect was me just going crazy or something, maybe it was Windows 7 that did that and I was thinking it was OS X because I'd been working on Windows 7 beta all weekend.
I've learned my lesson to not fiddle with the terminal except for things like ssh. Thanks!
Garrett