Dock Missing, Other shortcuts not working

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  1. igg, Feb 9, 2011

    igg macrumors newbie

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    My Mac recently crashed because of a large PDF that I opened, and I've restarted twice but both times, the 4 fingers up/down multitouch features no longer work, F3/F4 (Expose and Dashboard) don't work, and the Dock is missing.

    The Dock isn't hidden; I've looked in the preferences. I've searched and read that deleting com.apple.dock.plist in Library/Prefs might work, but I don't have that file. I do have com.apple.dockfixup.plist though. Should I delete that?

    I don't have access to my OSX disc.
     
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  2. BugBytes, Feb 9, 2011

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    The PDF you opened sounds fishy....
     
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  3. stev3n, Feb 9, 2011

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    What happens when you hold down COMMAND(apple key), OPTION(alt), and press D?
     
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  4. atlanticza, Feb 9, 2011

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    For the Multitouch issue, read this thread

    And why no OSX disk?
     
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  5. Gregg2, Feb 10, 2011

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    No. You absolutely, positively DO have the first one. Impossible not to have it. You're looking in the wrong Library Folder.

    HD/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences

    I don't know your user name, but you do.

    Move the file to your Desktop instead of deleting it. Then Restart the computer. It will make a new one. Keep it if it works, or put the old one back in Preferences to save your dock settings from before. (if it doesn't work)
     
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  6. igg, Feb 10, 2011

    igg thread starter macrumors newbie

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    It's definitely not the PDF; it's from my University. Don't have my OSX dsk cause it's at home and I'm at college.

    Cmd Option D didn't do anything; the Dock isn't just hidden.. it's actually missing upon startup.

    Btw, found more about the problem. After the computer has started up; about 30 minutes later, the dock appears, and the 4 fingers up/down multitouch features start working again.

    It's NOT a recognition issue of the fingers as 3 fingers works perfectly, and as soon as the dock reappears a long time after startup, the multitouch starts working again. For some reason there's a huge lag time?

    The only thing recent I've done is update my OSX to 10.6.6 from 10.6.5; but I didn't find any reported bug like this.

    And putting com.apple.dock.plist on the desktop didn't work either. Really odd problem..
     
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