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(High Sierra) Dock Icons get missing at all the time

Does anyone here get the problem of missing icons on Dock (High Sierra, 10.13 (17A365))?

I have tried many solutions, as such

1. restart Dock Dameon: "killall Dock"

2. reset Dock profile into default stage.

This happened at all the time even though I have performed a clean installation. I have got 2 devices: MacBook Pro (Late 2013) and iMac 5k (Late 2015); all macOS High Sierra 10.13 (17A365) updated.

I am quite sure this is one of bug that Apple should be addressed ASAP.

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013), macOS High Sierra (10.13)

Posted on Oct 1, 2017 1:11 PM

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Orlando Castro

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14 points

Posted on Nov 21, 2017 10:17 AM

My icons were disappearing from my dock after High Sierra also.

An Apple Support Senior Advisor had me.

In Menu > Go (press option) > Library > Preferences

Find and remove "com.apple.dock.extra.plist" and "com.apple.dock.plist" then restart.

Seems the preferences for the dock were messed up. Hopefully this helps.

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Dec 30, 2017 4:52 PM in response to nicky12888

This gave me one more icon than what I had before, but it didn't fix the problem.

dru22

Level 1

14 points

Jan 4, 2018 9:52 AM in response to Orlando Castro

Don't Do this, it will delete all your own dock programs and behavior settings!!!

Now I cannot get it back the way it used to be!!!!

😠

Jan 4, 2018 10:16 AM in response to dru22

@Dru22 - I couldn't see which post you were replying to ... which poster's advice caused you to lose all your settings?

Thx

Jan 8, 2018 9:17 AM in response to Orlando Castro

This worked perfectly. Thanks for sharing!!

ghducats

Level 1

4 points

Jan 9, 2018 2:00 PM in response to thecowsniper

Sometime the easiest answer is the best. Worked perfectly. Thanks!

Jan 9, 2018 9:36 PM in response to cordele

The icons are messed up in Launch pad... so I can't drag them down to the dock, otherwise I would.

Thoughts??

Jan 12, 2018 8:04 AM in response to nicky12888

Thanks a lot - an advice also an old grumpy tax advisor is able to understand. 😀

LaMusica

Level 1

4 points

Jan 23, 2018 8:34 PM in response to TA_Allan

I can’t believe how easy this solution was. Thanks. It fixed my issue.

cbegin

Level 1

4 points

Jan 25, 2018 9:07 AM in response to Foxboy71

I agree... where is Apple's support for this?

ikarosx

Level 1

10 points

Jan 31, 2018 7:00 AM in response to atlonxp

Have the same bug....reinstalled Mac OS, put everything back by hand, 2 days later half of the icons gone again. No solutions given seems to work. Please fix this apple!!

Feb 18, 2018 8:40 AM in response to Rashdude

Command+Shift+G

Foxboy71

Level 4

2,378 points

Feb 20, 2018 8:25 AM in response to cbegin

That's Apple: "It simply works" - even one app that can ruin it all. 😀 LOL

Mar 7, 2018 11:17 AM in response to atlonxp

After upgrading from previous version of Mac OS?

Mar 7, 2018 12:02 PM in response to majortom1967

It wasn't after an update, but like I said I already solved my problem with the workaround I posted above. 🙂

Mar 7, 2018 12:09 PM in response to halfwrittensong

Sorry, it's a prroblem of mine: I don't like workarounds.

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