On Jan 14, 2012, at 1:30 AM, [email protected] wrote: Dock/Icon Problem Bill Brown <[email protected]> Jan 13 01:21PM -0700
Greetings everyone. Bit of a problem here. First, the basic info: 2.4 GHz Intel iMac Core 2 Duo 2 GB RAM The Problem: 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 where the icon for the folder should be. Hmm. I detected a problem. Here is what I did to try to rectify the problem: 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. 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. Restarted normally. No change in icon; still the question mark. How can I get my Favorites folder back easily? I have a back-up of my entire system, but if there is an easier way to fix this, I sure would like to know. Also, what would be the underlying cause for this behavior? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!! Bill Dan <[email protected]> Jan 13 03:40PM -0500 At 1:21 PM -0700 1/13/2012, Bill Brown wrote: >2.4 GHz Intel iMac Core 2 Duo 2 GB RAM OS ? OS is Snow Leopard 10.6.8 >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. Windshield wipers won't work without the engine running ... : ) >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? Yes. Verified everything. >Restarted normally. No change in icon; still the question mark. Drag that foo icon off the dock. Icon will not let me move it off the dock. ??? Manually locate the original folder and drag it to the dock. Cannot manually find the original folder. If the original folder is AWOL, try searching for something that you know was inside it... A search returns nothing, not the folder title, nor any content names within it that I know should be there. >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... No relevant messages in system log. 2 other people have access to my computer, and I'm doubtful that one of them accidentally trashed the files/folder/icon. Guess I will reload from my back-up. Thanks for your assistance, Dan. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
