Wrong. When my MBP restarted after the 10.6.6 install, there the App Store was, "cluttering" up my dock.
That said, in my case it responded fine to a right-click/"remove from dock."
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Can't remove App Store from Dock
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Wrong. When my MBP restarted after the 10.6.6 install, there the App Store was, "cluttering" up my dock.
That said, in my case it responded fine to a right-click/"remove from dock."
Thank you for your response. Yes, I meant I reinstalled the App Store.
I don't have any add-ons for the Dock.
I was finally able to get it to work by deleting the dock plist files (yep, I had two). This didn't work the first time I had tried it, but seems to have worked after I had reinstalled the App Store.
On my 2008 MacBook I just removed the App Store icon from the dock and rebooted (twice). It did NOT show back up in the dock.
-Kevin
-Kevin
I had rebooted several times and it still came back, but now I removed it from the dock, then opened the app from it's normal location and then set to keep on dock, then remove from dock and then logged out and on and then rebooted and now it is still gone finally.
Right click on the App Store icon in the dock, Options - Remove from Dock.
Open Applications, drag App Store to trash, restart.
Worked for me.
BTW, shame on you Apple - you're Microsoft is showing!
Look for /Library/Preferences/com.apple.dockfixup.plist and rename it. Then, remove the App Store icon from your Dock. It should stay gone this time, even after you reboot.
THANK YOU and HALLELUJAH!!!! I greatly appreciate you figuring out how to get rid of this!!! Apple, SHAME ON YOU for acting just like MICROSOFT!
Don't blame Apple, just yet. Many people - perhaps most, we don't have figures - aren't having this problem with the icon on the dock.
Therefore, it means that either Apple didn't intend for the MAS to be 'sticky', and there's a bug that makes it sticky..
OR...
... they meant it to be 'sticky' (Microsoft-like), and messed it up. In which case - Apple still wouldn't be acting like MS. At least MS would have gotten it right and the icon would have been 'sticky' for everybody, and it's removal would break Safari. .
I'm glad it worked out for you. I don't think this was borne out of any malicious intention on the part of Apple. I suspect that there was some part of the update process that should have removed this file, but didn't. As a lab administrator I can see where this would a particularly useful tool.
Apple definitely wanted App Store to appear in the dock. Whether the dockfixup.plist should have been renamed, edited or deleted during the upgrade process to OS 10.6.6 I don`t know. Anyway such a change did not happen on my iMac. Malicious intention ... Unexplained error? Desperate? Misunderstood business policy?
Content of com.apple.dockfixup.plist:
{
move = {
"/Applications/Utilities/Apple System Profiler.app" = "/Applications/Utilities/System Profiler.app";
"/Applications/Expose.app" = "/Applications/Utilities/Expose.app";
"/Applications/Spaces.app" = "/Applications/Utilities/Spaces.app";
"/Applications/AppleScript/Script Editor.app" = "/Applications/Utilities/AppleScript Editor.app";
};
"remove-file" = {
"/Applications/iMovie.app" = "no-val";
"/Applications/iMovie HD.app" = "no-val";
"/Applications/iPhoto.app" = "no-val";
"/Applications/iTunes.app" = "no-val";
"/Applications/iCal.app" = "no-val";
"/Applications/Keynote.app" = "no-val";
"/Applications/GarageBand.app" = "no-val";
"/Applications/Pages.app" = "no-val";
"/Applications/Utilities/Disk Copy.app" = "no-val";
"/Library/Documentation/Help/MacHelp.help/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/lbn/LateBreakingNews.help" = "no-val";
};
version = "10.6.6";
"add-app" = (
{
path = "/Applications/App Store.app";
after = begin;
},
);
}
Now that I've played with the Mac App Store a bit, and installed a couple of free apps and paid for a game I've had these thoughts.
The behaviour of the icons that I've installed are not consistent. I've installed them on my Mac Pro, and my MBP. Sometimes the icons will put themselves onto the dock, sometimes not. I haven't figured out a pattern, though I haven't really tried to figure it out... it's just an observation.
I actually prefer it when installing an app put the icon on the dock (not talking about the MAS icon). Having the icon there reminds me that there is a new app to try out, and test. If I like the application I may keep the icon in the dock - or perhaps remove it. For some applications I put an alias into a folder of similar applications. I guess I am using the dock as an "on trial" area for the new apps, and it works well for me. YMMV, of course.
The behaviour of the icons that I've installed are not consistent. I've installed them on my Mac Pro, and my MBP. Sometimes the icons will put themselves onto the dock, sometimes not. I haven't figured out a pattern, though I haven't really tried to figure it out... it's just an observation.
I actually prefer it when installing an app put the icon on the dock (not talking about the MAS icon). Having the icon there reminds me that there is a new app to try out, and test. If I like the application I may keep the icon in the dock - or perhaps remove it. For some applications I put an alias into a folder of similar applications. I guess I am using the dock as an "on trial" area for the new apps, and it works well for me. YMMV, of course.
Could be a Dock preferences problem. Try moving your Library/Preferences/com.apple.Dock.plist to a temporary location. Open Terminal and type killall Dock. You'll get a default Dock (with App Store). Try removing App Store from this. If it works, just reconfigure your new Dock to the way it was before.
Thank you JeremyLC!!
I had this problem on both my iMac and my MacBook. The icon is gone from the dock thanks to you!
I had this problem on both my iMac and my MacBook. The icon is gone from the dock thanks to you!
Bought the new 15" Macbook Pro and had the same problem. This time, along with the Mac App Store icon, I had the Facetime icon persist even after removing it from the doc.
I followed JeremyLC's instructions and it took care of the problem. For people interested, Im attaching a screen shot of the offending plist.
You can see towards the bottom of the plist, where the doc is instructed to add the mac app store icon and facetime icon to the doc.
I followed JeremyLC's instructions and it took care of the problem. For people interested, Im attaching a screen shot of the offending plist.
You can see towards the bottom of the plist, where the doc is instructed to add the mac app store icon and facetime icon to the doc.
Server-managed computers work differently
After struggling with this nonsense for a while and entertaining myself with the amazingly diverse experiences reported in this thread, a co-worker discovered a comment on the web to the effect that the problem might be due to preferences enforced on managed machines by their OS X Server. This solved the problem for us. If you can't get rid of the problem and your computer is not managed by an OS X Server, then maybe one of the other solutions suggested earlier in this thread will work.
Do one of the following, then killall Dock:
[Q&D] The offending file is /Library/Managed Preferences/com.apple.Dock.plist. Supposedly this is created when a user logs in on a managed computer for the first time, but the 10.6.6 update somehow caused this to happen to existing user accounts.
[Workgroup Manager] The root cause of this for managed computers is found in the Preferences section of Workgroup Manager. Go there and click the Dock icon. If you select a user or group, you'll see these applications in the "Place these items in the user's Dock" section. Strangely, the radio button above where they show up is set to "Never", where the described effects would correspond to "Once"; furthermore, the items are grayed out. To get around this, select "Once" and delete all the offending items (you can select multiply, then click the -).
I found that doing this for all the groups and not bothering with the users was sufficient to solve the problem for most users. For at least one user, and I haven't figured out why, I had to delete these applications for the user specifically, not just the group.
After a user does "killall Dock" the added applications will not just be (re)movable, but they won't even be there (unless they were already on the user's Dock, in which case they will retain the user's positioning rather than forcing them all the way to the left).
You can find the relevant information about adding items to a user's doc on the page named "To add items to a user's Dock" either in Workgroup Manager Help, or on page 188 of Apple's User Management document.
After struggling with this nonsense for a while and entertaining myself with the amazingly diverse experiences reported in this thread, a co-worker discovered a comment on the web to the effect that the problem might be due to preferences enforced on managed machines by their OS X Server. This solved the problem for us. If you can't get rid of the problem and your computer is not managed by an OS X Server, then maybe one of the other solutions suggested earlier in this thread will work.
Do one of the following, then killall Dock:
[Q&D] The offending file is /Library/Managed Preferences/com.apple.Dock.plist. Supposedly this is created when a user logs in on a managed computer for the first time, but the 10.6.6 update somehow caused this to happen to existing user accounts.
[Workgroup Manager] The root cause of this for managed computers is found in the Preferences section of Workgroup Manager. Go there and click the Dock icon. If you select a user or group, you'll see these applications in the "Place these items in the user's Dock" section. Strangely, the radio button above where they show up is set to "Never", where the described effects would correspond to "Once"; furthermore, the items are grayed out. To get around this, select "Once" and delete all the offending items (you can select multiply, then click the -).
I found that doing this for all the groups and not bothering with the users was sufficient to solve the problem for most users. For at least one user, and I haven't figured out why, I had to delete these applications for the user specifically, not just the group.
After a user does "killall Dock" the added applications will not just be (re)movable, but they won't even be there (unless they were already on the user's Dock, in which case they will retain the user's positioning rather than forcing them all the way to the left).
You can find the relevant information about adding items to a user's doc on the page named "To add items to a user's Dock" either in Workgroup Manager Help, or on page 188 of Apple's User Management document.
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