My Dock does not load for some reason?

[lukester]

Never had a problem before. I am trying to think when it started not working. I did down load the latest version of OSx.
I go into the system window and click on dock and I get the old spinning ball. then it opens and I have to select the dock variables and it sometimes works.
I just noticed ti came to life after 5 minutes..
I just ran disk permissions and that does not seem to matter.

what else could I do?

 

[Jagardn]

Never had a problem before. I am trying to think when it started not working. I did down load the latest version of OSx.
I go into the system window and click on dock and I get the old spinning ball. then it opens and I have to select the dock variables and it sometimes works.
I just noticed ti came to life after 5 minutes..
I just ran disk permissions and that does not seem to matter.

what else could I do?

Go to ~/Library/Preferences and delete com.apple.dock.plist, it should start you off fresh. All of your shortcuts will have to be put back, but your plist file may be corrupt.

 

[lukester]

Thanks!! did the trick.. I wonder how it got screwed up?

 

[iThinkergoiMac]

Thanks!! did the trick.. I wonder how it got screwed up?

Random corruption, no way to tell what did it without a decent amount of research. It happens every now and then. If it keeps happening, you'll want to figure out what's causing it, but for now I wouldn't worry about it.