Re: Vanishing Dock Icons

Alan Quirt <HERONaquirt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Recent PowerBook 12", 768M RAM, Tiger 10.4.2.
>
> Several times since the 10.4.2 upgrade, a few "keep in dock" icons have
> simply vanished. Last time it was the three main MS Office X icons
> (Word, PPT, Excel) which were adjacent in the dock; Entourage (which was
> not adjacent) was still there. Other icons (twenty or so) were not
> affected. It was easy to drag the icons back into the dock from
> Applications, but having them vanish is worrying.
>
> It could be correlated with software installation, but I don't think so.

I do think so. Every once in a while I do an installation and my dock
gets reset - things I keep in it are not there, and things I've removed
(like the iApps) reappear. m.


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