What happened to my dock (et al)??
April 9, 2008 8:13 PM Subscribe
I was recently trying to add a "Recents" stack to my dock in Mac OS 10.5.2 using Terminal. I entered a command, pressed enter, and then restarted the dock. From then on, I could not use the dock anymore, nor Dashboard, Spaces, Expose, or the application switcher. I also noticed that my motion sensors do not work anymore. Everything still works on other accounts on my computer, just not on my administrator account. Any ideas about how to fix this?
Can you log into the Terminal again as that administrator and up-arrow your command history to at least tell us what you entered?
posted by nicwolff at 8:33 PM on April 9, 2008
posted by nicwolff at 8:33 PM on April 9, 2008
Restart?
posted by nathan_teske at 8:35 PM on April 9, 2008
posted by nathan_teske at 8:35 PM on April 9, 2008
is this what you used?
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071101055329470
It worked fine for me, maybe use time machine if nothing else works...
posted by Kifer85 at 9:53 PM on April 9, 2008
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071101055329470
It worked fine for me, maybe use time machine if nothing else works...
posted by Kifer85 at 9:53 PM on April 9, 2008
Best answer: You could delete your dock preferences plist file (assuming that Kifer85 is right and what you did is change the preferences file for the dock) and restart.
posted by bcwinters at 5:22 AM on April 10, 2008
posted by bcwinters at 5:22 AM on April 10, 2008
Response by poster: OK, fixed it by deleting the perferences file. I should have thought of that sooner... lol. Turns out I misread the command using the word "title" instead of "tile" a few times.
posted by Return Zero at 1:16 PM on April 14, 2008
posted by Return Zero at 1:16 PM on April 14, 2008
Response by poster: Thank you all for the advice!
and... I just realized I misspelled "preferences" in my previous post.
posted by Return Zero at 1:17 PM on April 14, 2008
and... I just realized I misspelled "preferences" in my previous post.
posted by Return Zero at 1:17 PM on April 14, 2008
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posted by SpecialK at 8:31 PM on April 9, 2008