Dock lost 3-D look

I understand the desire to look/feel more like iOS8 on iPad and iPhone…the new Iconic Dock certainly does that. However, like cherylfromcol, I too really, really miss the 3D Dock. It was cool. It made me feel like looking at the Mac screen I was seeing an extension of my physical desktop. Now, I,m afraid it looks more like my Windows 7 PC than a Mac.

I checked in System Preferences under Dock and Desktop (BTW, cool Yosemite Desktops!) - but there is nothing there.

I am very excited about the Yosemite features…way cool…so if there is a way to change to a 3D dock, it would be great.

MacBook Air OS X Yosemite 10.10

iMac OS X Mavericks 10.9.5

I dislike like the new iOS7 look myself, but you’d go back for the look of the dock?

That’s pretty extreme.

Another other thing is that the transparency on the dock appears to be gone & pulls a color cast from the desktop.

That works OK, depending upon your choice of desktop. Stay away from the old tigerskin!

I’m not happy with the title bars in a near white, more than a few dock icons, and the too-bright screen.

I’m going to grumble too, but its hardly the basis to go back to Mavericks without exploring the new features.

There a little free app called cDock that can bring back your 3D-dock (and more). So if that's the only problem you don't need to go back the Mavericks, but enjoy Yosemite a little more.

And to the TS cherylfromcol spgs:let me guess....you forgot to make a backup before you installed the new OS?

Most of the time the first build of a new MAC OS is not perfect but usable anyway. If you want to be sure you have a completly stable version, you better wait until the first update comes out (mostly within a few weeks). I only once had a calamity with an update that was totaly unusable. That was a few years ago, going from Snow Leopard to OS X Lion. You had disks in those days, so going back to SL was a bit of extra work, but not a fatal issue.

In the days of the Mac App Store you can't do without a good backup before updating to a new OS. If something goes wrong and you have a backup, you're stuck.

Thanks Peter - I'll give cDock a try.

Agree totally with CroMagnum - I'm definitely staying Yosemite - its taking a little getting getting used to (I keep going to the Upper Right Corner to Max the window into a new screen - Doh!) If cDock works as advertised, I can have the best of both worlds.

You're welcome, and it works. You can even bring some colors back in the sidebar of Finder, if you like.

Peter - thanks again for the tip - cDock rocks! Not quite the same but a HUGE improvement (IMHO). I used the "Yosemite 3D" selection and am "back in my Mac comfort zone" 😉

Well, although I've never gone backwards to an older operation system–"un-upgrading"? "reverse upgrading"?–on Mac or Windows, I cannot imagine that it is, um…advisable. New operating systems tend to take over your hard drive like The Borg on Star Trek - without a backup, you are kind of stuck trying to put a square peg in a round hole. (Wow - talk about mixed metaphors). Sounds like just wouldn't work.

So far I haven't found any bugs on my MacBook Air running Yosemite - that said, I'm taking PeterVL57's advice and waiting a bit before I upgrade my iMac.

Oh... you'll require a restore. you're gonna want to make sure you have a full backup, then next, turn off your computer. Then turn it back on while holding Command-R. keep holding it until you see a loading bar. when its done loading, click disk utilities and delete your disk. then go back and click reinstall mac os. when it done installing, you can have your... 3D dock? Thats not a very good reason to downgrade, but whatever... after its done installing, you can restore your backup!