I came across this one with a friend a while back. drove me absolutely
nuts. While this may not be the cause, I suggest you check >system
preferences>deskop and turn off "change picture every xxx" ie. Just
select one picture to remain as your desktop. Then restart.
What I found was that if you set desktop pictures to change, but the
folder which you asked it to change pictures from was empty/only and
other folders in it, it went spac, resulting in multiple unexpected
quits of the dock and eventually the dock just disappears. So if you
make sure the folder has only pictures in it it should also be ok,
though I recommend just setting it to one picture to check first.
Check it out. After I did the above, problem disappeared completely!
Hope this helps. If you are still having problems/don't understand what
I just described, email me back!
Dave
On Sunday, October 26, 2003, at 05:03 AM, WAMUG Mailing List wrote:
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 14:16:33 +0800
Subject: Problem with the Dock
From: Adam Lippiatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hello all
The last couple of days the dock has started to play up. It will
suddenly
disappear and then reappear (like it is quitting and starting itself up
again). After it has done this quite a few times, it will disappear
and no=
t
come back.
I don=B9t have auto show/hide on.
I just upgraded to Panther and it is still happening. I searched the
archives and saw another reference to a similar problem. It suggested
removing the file:
com.apple.dockfixup.plist
from the preference list. I tried this but the problem persists.
There appears to be another dock preference:
com.apple.dock.plist
in the preferences folder.
I just noticed, when I undertook a search, that there is now a file
called:
Dock.crash.log
that has been modified today. I suppose this is because the dock is
crashing :)
Thanks in advance for any help.
Regards
Adam Lippiatt
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