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Strange Finder icon in dock!
- Thread starter TylerFerris
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does a restart fix the issue?
what happens if you drag the dock to the left/right side of the screen?
what applications have you installed?
what happens if you drag the dock to the left/right side of the screen?
what applications have you installed?
Restart doesn't fix I've only installed microsoft office and some other applications that are pretty much required for a university student and dragging doc doesn't help... I have tried everything, its really weird.
I have found an answer on the Apple forums:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2589099&tstart=0
Your help was much appreciated!
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2589099&tstart=0
Your help was much appreciated!
The specific steps I followed as derived from previous comments are:
Thanks all for your help on this. You know how we all get stressed out when our Mac's aren't perfectly gorgeous.
- In Finder go to ~/Library/Preferences/
- Locate com.apple.dock.db and com.apple.dock.plist (maybe that .db is the relevant item but I took the next step on both and all was fine)
- Insert a "_" character at the beginning of each item -- this revision to the name will cause the OS to think they're no longer there.
- In terminal.app run: killall Dock
- Result: the OS rebuilds both items _and_ the messed-up cached Finder icon is fixed.
Thanks all for your help on this. You know how we all get stressed out when our Mac's aren't perfectly gorgeous.
