New to the Mac community I recently purchased a MacBook Pro and it wont let me remove items from the dock. I have tried every conventional way I can think of and looked up the question on this site but nothing is working.... Any suggestions?
MacBook Pro
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Maybe the Dock settings file is locked because of a permissions problem, so try to remove it. Open a Finder window, select Go menu (on the menu bar) > Go to Folder, and type ~/Library/Preferences.
Then, delete "com.apple.dock.plist" and restart. The Dock will be back to default settings and Mac OS X will create a new Dock settings file, so you should be able to remove and add items to the Dock.
Also, note that you can't remove apps from the Dock that are opened. In that case, you will have to close the app, so the app will disappear if it's not set to keep in Dock
Welcome to Apple Support Communities
Maybe the Dock settings file is locked because of a permissions problem, so try to remove it. Open a Finder window, select Go menu (on the menu bar) > Go to Folder, and type ~/Library/Preferences.
Then, delete "com.apple.dock.plist" and restart. The Dock will be back to default settings and Mac OS X will create a new Dock settings file, so you should be able to remove and add items to the Dock.
Also, note that you can't remove apps from the Dock that are opened. In that case, you will have to close the app, so the app will disappear if it's not set to keep in Dock
Have you tried by clicking on the icon and holding the track pad down which will produce a menu?
Then select OPTIONS and get a sub menu.
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Thank you! that did solve the problem until the next time I opened an Application and then couldn't remove it so I have to go through this process the whole time :-/... Could it be something in my settings? Also how am I sure I've closed an application/program and its not just running in he background? I've been using the red "traffic light" and assumed that meant I had closed it down.
Yeah, I had already tried that... no joy :-(
Some apps are closed when you press the red button, and others require to press Command and Q keys
You can set the dock to have a light on below the icon (symbol), in dock settings (System Preferences); when the program (app) is running.
why can't I remove items from the dock?
