Robert Gruber wrote:
Maybe someone with textedit can try dragging the "shortcut" from the dock to the desktop and checking for info from there.
I drag the dock icon to the desktop, and as advertised it bounces right back to the dock because the program is open. When I close TextEdit and drag the dock's TextEdit icon to the desktop, the alias' icon disappears in a cloud of smoke -- also as advertised -- because it is the alias of a closed program.
The TextEdit program itself remains in my Applications folder.
> I'm sure it's gone from my HD, and I'm sure I didn't move the Ap from > the HD to the desktop, IIRC!
Whatever -- now you know what to expect, and how to avoid the problem in the future. As I understand it, your problem is now to either find your original TextEdit program lurking somewhere on your HDD, or to get a new copy of textEdit, is it not?
When you click on a dock icon and hold down the click pad or mouse button you get a small menu of options for dealing with the item. In the case of the dock's textEdit icon the menu is:
Show in Finder Hide Quit
if the progranm is open, but only;
Show in Finder
if the program is closed.
When I select Show in Finder the folder in which TextEdit is contained opens in a new window and the Textedit program icon is visible, and one can then deal with it as desired.
Good Luck, Jack
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