Mac Dock Icons Gray Out

PVdesigner · 01-19-2009, 11:29 AM

Hello,

I've been having a problem with my dock icons graying out and failing to launch the application. After starting up, I'll go to click on any one of my dock icons to launch the application, but the icon will gray out. I'll try another icon, then another, but they all gray out and don't launch. I have been able to work around by restarting, but sometimes I have to restart two or three times before the icons behave correctly. And the other odd thing is that this problem doesn't happen every day (or every time I startup). Sometimes this will happen two days in a row. Sometimes I can go 4/5 days without any issues.

You heard of anything like this before? Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Thank you,

PVdesigner

shuuhen · 01-19-2009, 03:26 PM

I vaguely remember hearing about greyed Dock icons. I don't know the exact cause, but first thing I'd try is probably repairing permissions with Disk Utility (Applications->Utilities). I remember one of those XML preference files Apple uses is for the Dock settings. There's a chance it's a plist file that just has bad permissions. Just an initial thought.

PVdesigner · 01-20-2009, 10:00 AM

Thanks for that. I ran Disk Utilities and repaired permissions. I'll be in touch to let you know if that fixed it.

Thanks,

PVdesigner

01-19-2009, 11:29 AM	#1 (permalink)
PVdesigner Registered User Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 2 OS: Mac OS X 10.4.11	Mac Dock Icons Gray Out Hello, I've been having a problem with my dock icons graying out and failing to launch the application. After starting up, I'll go to click on any one of my dock icons to launch the application, but the icon will gray out. I'll try another icon, then another, but they all gray out and don't launch. I have been able to work around by restarting, but sometimes I have to restart two or three times before the icons behave correctly. And the other odd thing is that this problem doesn't happen every day (or every time I startup). Sometimes this will happen two days in a row. Sometimes I can go 4/5 days without any issues. You heard of anything like this before? Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Thank you, PVdesigner

01-19-2009, 03:26 PM	#2 (permalink)
shuuhen Manager Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Colorado Posts: 981 OS: Mac OS 9.1, Mac OS X 10.5.8, WinXP Pro, FreeBSD 6.0, Gentoo Linux My System	Re: Mac Dock Icons Gray Out I vaguely remember hearing about greyed Dock icons. I don't know the exact cause, but first thing I'd try is probably repairing permissions with Disk Utility (Applications->Utilities). I remember one of those XML preference files Apple uses is for the Dock settings. There's a chance it's a plist file that just has bad permissions. Just an initial thought. __________________ Has it been a few days since I replied to your thread? Don't panic! I'm a busy college student and may forget a post if I'm extra busy (or it might just take me a while to be able to do a decent reply). If you still need help and are awaiting my reply after a few days, PM me about it. When posting what errors you get, please give the full message. It makes helping you much easier.

01-20-2009, 10:00 AM	#3 (permalink)
PVdesigner Registered User Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 2 OS: Mac OS X 10.4.11	Re: Mac Dock Icons Gray Out Thanks for that. I ran Disk Utilities and repaired permissions. I'll be in touch to let you know if that fixed it. Thanks, PVdesigner