How can I stop my dock from rearranging the apps by itself?

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How can I stop my dock from rearranging the apps by itself?

I just received my iMac from FedEx today and got it all set up, but whenever I try to rearrange the icons on my dock, about 5-10 seconds later they just rearrange themselves randomly or sometimes go back to their previous location before I moved them myself.

I never had these problems with Snow Leopard on my last mac so I'm just wondering if this is a bug or if anybody has a fix for it. I found a suggestion to go to ~Library/Preferences and delete 'com.apple.preferences.plist' but I couldn't find it in that folder or anywhere on my local HD for that matter.

If anyone has any other suggestions it would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)

Posted on May 3, 2012 1:16 AM

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X423424X

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May 3, 2012 1:39 AM in response to cwbpure134

Lion hides your Library folder. You can get to it via the Finder Go menu, Go To Folder, and entering ~/Library or ~/Library/Preferences depending on where you want to go.

As for the dock thing, I realize you have a new system, but have you installed any third party additions at this point? Or is this still a "pristine", as-shipped version of Lion?

The plist you may want to remove is,

~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist

i.e., that plist in your home directory Preferences. Log out and back in after you remove that plist.

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