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Sven Mogelgaard
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Q: Dock Ions Bring Up Applications Window In Finder

Sometimes one or more icons in the Dock get wonky. When I click on certain icons the Finder window pops up with that Icon highlighted.  Right now it' Safari, but not always.  If I reboot it goes back to normal.  At least for a while...

iMac G5 20, Mac OS X (10.3.7)

Posted on Dec 23, 2014 2:59 PM

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Sven Mogelgaard

Q: Dock Ions Bring Up Applications Window In Finder

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  • by Eric Root,Helpful

    Eric Root Eric Root Dec 24, 2014 9:37 AM in response to Sven Mogelgaard
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    Dec 24, 2014 9:37 AM in response to Sven Mogelgaard

    Try doing a Dock restart using the following Terminal command:

     

    killall Dock

     

    Log out/in and test. If that doesn’t work, you need to look in your user Library/Applications Support/Dock for the .db. Use the Finder “Go To Folder” command. Enter ~/Library/Applications Support/Dock.  Move the .db to your desktop.

     

    Then try a dock reset.

     

    Applications/Utilities/Terminal enter the command

     

    killall Dock


     

    Log out/in test. If it works okay, delete the .db from the desktop.


    If the Dock is the same, return the .db to where you got them from, overwriting the newer ones.