At 1:21 PM -0700 1/13/2012, Bill Brown wrote:
2.4 GHz Intel iMac Core 2 Duo 2 GB RAM
OS ?
In my Dock, I had a folder entitled "Favorites" that I had stored my
favorite MP3s and video clips in. Today, Friday the 13th of course,
upon starting up my iMac, the place holder for this "Favorites"
folder in the dock showed a question mark
So either the folder's alias in the dock is corrupted, or the folder
to which it points is either gone or corrupted.
Did a "Find" for my Favorites folder. Not anywhere it shows.
Restarted in "Safe Mode". No change in the dock icon.
Restarted in normal mode. No change.
There's a dead crow on your windshield, so you restarted your car's engine.
Ran Disk Utility, and, as is usual, it noted many permissions that
were whacky. Repaired permissions, verified permissions and disk.
No problems with that routine.
If your permissions were foo, then you'd see many many other
problems. Also, the permissions that that function "repairs" have
NOTHING to do with user files.
Doing a "verify disk" pass is what should have been done. By "and
disk", is that what you mean?
Restarted normally. No change in icon; still the question mark.
Drag that foo icon off the dock.
Manually locate the original folder and drag it to the dock.
If the original folder is AWOL, try searching for something that you
know was inside it...
Also, what would be the underlying cause for this behavior?
Depends on what actually happened. Could be your HD threw a bad
block. If that's the case, then there should be some messages in
your system log. Could also be you accidentally tossed the folder
into the trash...
- Dan.
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