Dock Troubleshooting

[Martin.]

hey, sometimes my dock will hide and then it wont come back up. it is on magnify but i can get it up by pressing hiding off but then it dosent magnify, restarting my computer usually helps but i just thought this was weird, anyone else haave the same problem?

 

[lamina]

hey, sometimes my dock will hide and then it wont come back up. it is on magnify but i can get it up by pressing hiding off but then it dosent magnify, restarting my computer usually helps but i just thought this was weird, anyone else haave the same problem?

Yup, I've had the same problem on my iMac.

One solution is to open Terminal and enter:
killall Dock

That will kill and relaunch the process.

Edit: OR!

You can run this handy little AppleScript a friendly forum user made for me.

The code is as follows:

tell application "Terminal"
activate
do script with command "killall Dock"
end tell
tell application "Terminal"
activate
do script with command "killall Terminal"
end tell

 

[Martin.]

thanks, ya i wonder if its only on imacs, but apple should really make a fix for it, and there is nothing on support for apple.

Edit: wait that script is a classic app, plus its an ms-dos executable file, not a script, its listed like .app.exe