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Resolved How to hide docked apps from the app folder?

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Seykela

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Aug 7, 2011
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If you add an app to the dock, it will be shown both in the dock and in the app bar.

I want to hide docked apps from the app bar. The only solution I came to by now is subfolder in the applications directory, where apps I want to be hidden reside. It doesn't work well with some apps.

So, is there a more sophisticated way to do this?

Thanks.
 
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Seykela said:
If you add an app to the dock, it will be shown both in the dock and in the app bar.

I want to hide docked apps from the app bar. The only solution I came to by now is subfolder in the applications directory, where apps I want to be hidden reside. It doesn't work well with some apps.

So, is there a more sophisticated way to do this?

Thanks.
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don't think you can

the dock is really just a shortcut to the app

be careful about moving things around in the application folder, things mostly should work ok, but software updates expect them to be in the original location
 
Ah! Given name: Stack (by Apple). :apple:

Open apps will always show up to the right of the Stacks. No easy way to prevent that.
 
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You could hide apps using the terminal. Open the terminal (Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app) and enter :

Code: 
sudo chflags hidden

followed by a space, then drag the app you want to hide from the finder to the terminal window and hit enter. Type your administrator password at the prompt.


For example, hiding Safari would look like this :

Code: 
sudo chflags hidden /Applications/Safari.app

to unhide, just replace "hidden" with "nohidden".


N.B. The terminal gives no feedback when entering a password.
 
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