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How To Reset Dock?

Yamcha

Yamcha

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Mar 6, 2008
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Hi Guys,

Finished installing OS X Mountain Lion and everything is working perfectly, but I want to be able to restore dock size to defaults and normally it would require you deleting plist file in preferences but It doesn't seem to be working..

Anyone know how I can reset dock to default size?
 
Late reply, but I managed to find out how!

Open terminal and type without quote "defaults delete com.apple.dock" followed by "killall Dock"

It was driving me crazy, I wanted to test some things and reset to default and nothing worked, but this does :)
 
FrancoisC said:
Late reply, but I managed to find out how!

Open terminal and type without quote "defaults delete com.apple.dock" followed by "killall Dock"

It was driving me crazy, I wanted to test some things and reset to default and nothing worked, but this does :)
Click to expand...

Thanks, this works on Developer Preview 4...
 
FrancoisC said:
Late reply, but I managed to find out how!

Open terminal and type without quote "defaults delete com.apple.dock" followed by "killall Dock"

It was driving me crazy, I wanted to test some things and reset to default and nothing worked, but this does :)
Click to expand...

That above command didn't work for me. I tried:

rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.{db,plist}; killall Dock

and that worked for me.
 
In the Apple world, people shouldn't be able to set things like the Dock and Finder back to their default settings and appearance. Just like they shouldn't be able to hide file extensions of a certain type system wide.

Sorry, just felt like going on a bit of a rant there.
 
Make your own Applescipt. Open AppleScript Editor and put in the code:
Code: 
quit application "Dock"

Then while still in making the Script, after you put in the quit Dock code, Compile it then save it tour desktop or applications folder (save it as an application). Then just double click it to reset the Dock.
 
satcomer said:
Make your own Applescipt. Open AppleScript Editor and put in the code:
Code: 
quit application "Dock"

Then while still in making the Script, after you put in the quit Dock code, Compile it then save it tour desktop or applications folder (save it as an application). Then just double click it to reset the Dock.
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That just restarts the Dock process. It will not do things like reset icon layout or preferences.
 
try deleting (from the Home>Library>Preferences Folder):

com.apple.dock.plist
com.apple.dock.plist.lockfile

(maybe put them on the desktop, then run Killall Dock in terminal...)

you can get to the user library with option-click on the Go menu...
 
TheRainKing said:
In the Apple world, people shouldn't be able to set things like the Dock and Finder back to their default settings and appearance. Just like they shouldn't be able to hide file extensions of a certain type system wide.

Sorry, just felt like going on a bit of a rant there.
Click to expand...

Why not????
 
FrancoisC said:
Late reply, but I managed to find out how!

Open terminal and type without quote "defaults delete com.apple.dock" followed by "killall Dock"

It was driving me crazy, I wanted to test some things and reset to default and nothing worked, but this does :)
Click to expand...

Worked perfectly for me. Thanks! :)
 
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