We had a power outage this afternoon. Since then the Safari icon keeps disappearing from the dock. I can find it in Launch pad. I click on it and it appears in the dock as it opens. I then right click on the icon, and check the option to keep it in the dock. When I close out of Safari the icon disappears from the dock. Everything else is acting normally. Any suggestions? Thanks.
iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11.3)
dominic23 and Eric Root
Thanks for your advice. I was clicking on "keep in dock" after dragging the Safari icon from the launchpad to the dock, but with Safari closed. I eventually tried it with Safari open and it worked. It's working fine now. I don't know why. (BTW, I have no anti-virus apps or anything like MacKeeper or CleanMy Mac.)
Might be a corrupt .plist.
Do a backup, preferably 2 backups on 2 separate drives.
Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Select Library. Then go to Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist and com.apple.dock.plist. Move the .plist to your desktop.
Re-launch Finder by restarting the computer and test. If it works okay, delete the plist from the desktop.
If the same, return the .plist to where you got it from, overwriting the newer one.
Thanks to leonie for some information contained in this.
If that doesn't work, 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.
If you prefer to make your user library permanently visible, go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Learned from leonie.
Do you have any application like CleanMyMac installed?
Safari icon keeps disappearing form dock.
