Mac – Snow Leopard – Dock icons randomly disappear

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Snow Leopard works great! My mac's really fast after this. But sometimes the dock icons just disappear! I see the blue dot beneath when I click the empty space. So I know the item's there. But there are no icons! This happened for Safari and Downloads.

Some people responded on the Apple forums that I should try and remove the dock's plist file. But this just restores the dock to its original settings! I don't want to lose my settings.

Anyone else facing this issue with SL? Or is it a problem only I am facing?

Thanks

Best Answer

That has happened to me with the Mail and Address Book icons, they became invisible but the blue dot would remain when the apps were in use. It seemed odd that it would happen with the two Apple apps.

My procedure for correcting the problem affects only the app with the problem.

  • quit the app
  • right click (I have a two-button mouse) on the invisible icon
  • chose 'Options - Show in Finder'
  • chose 'Options - Remove from Dock'
  • rebooted the app from the Finder window
  • chose 'Options - Keep in Dock' and moved the icon back to its original place.

That immediately corrected the problem. The icons remained after reboot.

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