Dock sticks to left side of screen

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Dock sticks to left side of screen

Hi everyone
well in the middle of copying 100GB of data the finder crashed and so I held the power button of my macbook pro in order to reboot but when it came back to the OS again , the dock stuck to left side of the screen
In order to inform you I have already tried killall dock and ... so if there is somebody out there who can upload the Dock application located in HD/SYSTEM/LIBRARY/CORESERVICES I will be really thankful of him or her and also I think it can help many others with the similar problems
Thank you.

MacBook Pro 17'' core i5 (mc024), Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Jan 13, 2011 4:07 AM

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Answer 1

Barney-15E

Level 10

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Jan 13, 2011 5:10 AM in response to Shahin Bieandooh

There are hidden preferences for that. Copy/paste this into Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.dock pinning "Middle"
killall Dock

First sets the preference and the second kills the Dock and it restarts automatically.

You could also use a program like [Secrets|http://secrets.blacktree.com> to set that preference.

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Answer 2

thomas_r.

Level 7

32,031 points

Jan 13, 2011 4:22 AM in response to Shahin Bieandooh

You don't need to replace your Dock application, and you certainly should NEVER install something like that sent to you from some unknown stranger online! If it actually were necessary to replace the Dock application, you could do that from your install disks with the assistance of [Pacifist|http://www.charlessoft.com>... but again, that is not necessary here.

Sounds like your Dock preferences got damaged somehow. Try just changing the position back to what you expect (bottom or right) using System Preferences -> Dock. If that doesn't help, you'll want to delete ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Dock.plist (where '~' means "your home folder"), then log out and log back in.

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Answer 3

Jan 13, 2011 5:02 AM in response to Shahin Bieandooh

well it stuck to the left but in the horizontal way , not vertical
i mean if your dock is located in the middle bottom of the screen , mine is left bottom of the screen , like this :
normal:(00----00)
my problem:(0000----)

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Answer 4

Jan 13, 2011 4:24 AM in response to Shahin Bieandooh

System Preferences>Dock check 'Position on Screen' - bottom.

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Answer 5

Jan 13, 2011 5:22 AM in response to Barney-15E

Thank you very much Barney-15E it worked and you're a legend with a different point of view thank you
also thank you all for your responds to my post

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