I've never seen this before!

[0098386]

Ok i was dragging over an MP3 to throw into iTunes when all of a sudden the mouse goes mental and in a split second all my dock gets messed up. but look! what the hell has happened?! the finder icon just... well... dropped off! clicking on it does nothing. i dont want to restart either, or relaunch Finder... i feel special 😛

also i'd like to say that for some strange reason mouse clicking becomes disabled every so often. its only happened twice, but i can move my mouse and still use hot-corners with expose. but i cant click anything. relaunching Finder does nothing.

have i broken OSX 🙁

 

[Gokhan]

k

u may have to restart probably a glitch should not happen again (fingers crossed)

 

[Daveway]

This seems to be happening more ofte lately. I can remember at least 3 other times someone reported this behavior.

try resetting the dock.

 

[Vader]

Strange, you might need to clear out the dock.plst files, do you have any dock-altering app in use?

 

[yippy]

Have you tried restarting the dock? "killall Dock" in terminal I think is the command.

Or just log out and log back in, that will also restart it.

 

[macOSX-tastic]

wow, straaange.....

deffo shouldnt happen though, restart restart RESTART!


tastic

 

[killuminati]

I'v had that happen before. Just a quick restart fixes it.

 

[mileslong]

im not sure but it might have something to do with the file known as "peep show" you have there. if its not a bad file then it should be...

 

[mkrishnan]

"killall Dock" from the terminal (Dock capitalized) should also resolve this sort of issue.

 

[Eluon]

and while your at it, clean off some of that HD! You are running outa space buddy!

 

[allegrocm]

Mouse clicks sometimes stop working due to mouse keys

If you turn on mouse keys (hitting option five times) like I do when I'm far away from my mouse, then sometimes its clicks get stuck or something. To fix it, turn mouse keys on and tap 5 on the keypad. That always fixes the problem for me.

Ken

 

[0098386]

im not sure but it might have something to do with the file known as "peep show" you have there. if its not a bad file then it should be...

hah! i knew somebody would pick up on that. its a Channel 4 comedy over here. very smart show, its just these 2 guys but you hear what they're thinking.

cheers for the help guys! restarts fix everything yea. its fine now 🙂 although i do miss my detached Finder icon... *sniffs*