Strange Finder icon in dock!

[TylerFerris]

I have had my MacBook Pro for 1 day and I see this glitchy icon in my dock:

If anybody has seen this before or have a solution please help!

 

[DoFoT9]

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?

 

[TylerFerris]

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.

 

[MartyF81]

Can you take an image of your entire doc? (including other Icons)

 

[TylerFerris]

Yep... Here we go!

If you need it bigger I can do that too...

Thanks for your help guys!

 

[TylerFerris]

I have found an answer on the Apple forums:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2589099&tstart=0

Your help was much appreciated!

 

[DoFoT9]

I have found an answer on the Apple forums:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2589099&tstart=0

Your help was much appreciated!

aaahhh

wonderful! i am glad that you got it working 🙂

 

[blackliquorish]

The specific steps I followed as derived from previous comments are:

1. In Finder go to ~/Library/Preferences/
2. 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)
3. 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.
4. In terminal.app run: killall Dock
5. 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. 🙂

 

[devilstrider]

Nice to know just in case I have the same issue.

 

[Bluekat]

I'm confused.
This is just your Finder icon. It is supposed to be in the dock.
Am I missing something?

 

[Hisdem]

I'm confused.
This is just your Finder icon. It is supposed to be in the dock.
Am I missing something?

You are 🙂

Look above the icon, it's ghosted.