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What to do when your dock stops working

Started by brentspore · 9 months ago

This morning I was sitting, enjoying my feeds with some music when I decided do something as simple switching to a different playlist in iTunes. Down goes the mouse to the bottom of my screen (where my dock is hidden) … Up a bit … Down again … Uhh  ... Continue reading »

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  • Universal

    2 years ago

    I completely disabled magnification of the dock and my Mac seems to be running even faster than it was before. That and the fact that I have [counting; 1, 2, 3.....16, 17....43, 44...58, 59...] 60 icons in my dock. I need to clean it up a bit :-P
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  • Chris Thomson

    2 years ago

    There is always the terminal. Actually my Dock died today, and it didn't restart automaticly so I opened the terminal and typed in the regular...


    killall Dock

    ... To get rid of it. Other times I just use Activity Monitor :)

    -Chris
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  • Derek Punsalan

    2 years ago

    As an alternative to launching the Activity Monitor, simply hit CMD+Option+Esc and restart the Finder.
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  • Shawn Blanc

    2 years ago

    @ Chris: 60? Sweet moses! Quicksilver can help you with those dock items.

    @ Derek: You stole my comment.
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  • Jeff Schiller

    2 months ago

    Thank you!
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