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by: Noiseboy2006
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Transparent Dock
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Mar 17, 2008 6:14 PM
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New Mac user and I am not getting straight answers from Support. My new iMac's dock continues to go transparent (not the smokey gray at startup) after the computer has been running for a while. Support originally told me that it was normal....not true. Then they had me run around clicking all types of files. This made it go gray for awhile, but now it is clear!!!!! What is going on? Can anyone help me understand this?
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Re: Transparent Dock
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Mar 17, 2008 6:33 PM
in response to: SDJ1
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I'm very confused as to what you are talking about. Leopard's dock is transparent. Just to be sure we are talking about the same thing, the Dock is at the bottom of the screen where the icons for applications are. Are you thinking of something else? I'm not sure what was smokey gray, but the dock should be transparent, unless you have installed a third party program to change the dock to 2d, but only then would it be a dark, smokey gray. So unless you have changed something by downloading a program, support was right.
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Re: Transparent Dock
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Mar 18, 2008 12:31 PM
in response to: adamb529
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Thanks for calming me down on this issue. I guess I was spooked because in both the books I purchased the dock was smokey gray and mine was clear. In addition, upon first starting up the computer, the dock is smokey gray and only after a while does it turn clear. Thanks, again.
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Re: Transparent Dock
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Mar 18, 2008 1:35 PM
in response to: adamb529
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Adam, since you know so much about this particular problem, have you noticed that when the dock goes transparent you can no longer view the cascading effect of the downloads folder? When they cascade up, they are transparent as well and you cannot view them. All you can see are gray bars!!
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Re: Transparent Dock
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Mar 18, 2008 1:42 PM
in response to: SDJ1
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Adam,
I am a new user too and I have the exact same problem with stacks in my Dock. It goes transparent. The stacks expand as expected but I cant see the names of the files in them, they are transparent. The dock starts out smoky gray, then goes transparent after a while. I don't know what triggers this behavior.
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Re: Transparent Dock
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Mar 18, 2008 3:57 PM
in response to: adamb529
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Lets be sure what we mean be transparent. Here are screen shots of my dock.  , 
Which one are you describing as transparent and which are you describing as smokey gray?
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Re: Transparent Dock
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Mar 19, 2008 2:19 PM
in response to: adamb529
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The bottom ones is the transparent one. I could live with this, except for the fact that when you click on the downloads icon and it cascades up, you cannot see the files, only gray lines. Earlier today, I rebooted my computer and so far, I have had the smokey gray dock. How much longer it will remain, I know not.
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Re: Transparent Dock
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Mar 19, 2008 3:52 PM
in response to: SDJ1
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When my dock is transparent (2d), i can see the files in stacks. Post back if something changes again.
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Re: Transparent Dock
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Mar 19, 2008 5:25 PM
in response to: adamb529
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This thread has a longer discussion about the same issue.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1254812&tstart=30
Some "workarounds" suggested, eg: (not exact) killall dock and then reopen it. Or start the machine with diagnostics, etc, etc. I don't like either of those!
Adam, it would be great if you could look at that thread and post a reply there. Its been unanswered for a while.
Thanks.
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Re: Transparent Dock
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Mar 19, 2008 5:41 PM
in response to: SDJ1
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Based on pictures posted in the other thread documenting this problem, I think that the first step is to delete the dock preference file: YourHomeFolder/Library/Preferences/com.apple.doc.plist. If the problem persists, delete the preference file and the following file: YourHomeFolder/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.db. Let me know if this works.
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Re: Transparent Dock
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Mar 21, 2008 3:40 PM
in response to: adamb529
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Tried that Adam, didnt help. I deleted both files from Library/Preferences and killed the dock.But the problem persists. Restarting/logging off, resets the dock to factory settings, and all is good, but after a while its back to transparent and the fan-view of stacks won't show filenames.
Thanks for trying! I think its just a Leopard bug, Ive seen it in another post this morning!
Message was edited by: pseudoKu
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Re: Transparent Dock
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Mar 21, 2008 4:12 PM
in response to: pseudoKu
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Mac OS X Feedback
Be sure to select Bug Report under feedback type.
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Re: Transparent Dock
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Mar 25, 2008 2:11 PM
in response to: SDJ1
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My dock does the same thing: starts up gray, turns transparent, downloads popup doesn't show anything, restarting fixes it. Just to add, Leopard is more unstable than Tiger I have found. I think it was released a bit too soon. I find my old Windows fears creeping back of having to save all my work every few minutes for fear that something will shut down.
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Re: Transparent Dock
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Apr 3, 2008 3:41 PM
in response to: Jeremy Westcott
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Here is the solution, as posted on Macosxhints.com. They even linked to this thread!
1. Close any open programs (or the following command will do it for you...just don't be surprised!
2. Open Terminal (/Applications/Utilities)
3. Type (or copy and paste) the following code: killall Dock
4. If that doesn't work, try sudo killall -HUP WindowServer
Hope that solves all of your problems.
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