Can anyone help me please. What could make a program Icon disappear from the dock and replaced with a ?
MacBook Pro (17-inch Mid 2009), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)
If the application is moved to another locaton or deleted completely, the link to the app will be removed and you'll see a question mark in place of an icon.
Clinton
Clintonfrombirmingham I have not moved it or replaced it. The one that disappeared is the icon for my printer.
Usually the printer icon only appears in the Dock after the first print job. After that it will stay there. Unless you 'quit' the printer app, of course.
Whew! Nothing lost!
Clinton
Your right. I forgot strange that it is on my dock as a question mark (?). Thank you for the answer.
Clinton
That is strange - I've a Canon printer (two actually) and when I restart or quit the printer queue, I don't get a question mark - just as if I quit an application that I didn't have in the Dock. Try actually removing the question marked icon from the Dock by using a right (control) click and selecting "Remove from Dock."
Good luck,
Clinton
I will try it while i minimize this window . . . That did it. the ? is gone... but that doesn't explain the program I have that disappeared a couple of days ago. It is called Final Draft it is a program to write screen plays with and I use it all the time and one day I turned on the computer and there was a ? and when I put the cursor over the question mark it would show Final Draft just as if the icon was still there but no matter what I did I could not get it to open so I had to reload the program from the Disk. Luckly I had saved all of my work in other folders so all was not lost but it was strange. But now all is clear I put the cursor on the ? mark and clicked on remove from Dock and it disappeared. Thanks again I guess I need to wait and see if another real program like Final Draft disappears then get on here again. Thanks for the help.
Can anyone help me please. What could make a program Icon disappear from the dock and replaced with a ?
