On Friday, September 13, 2002, at 10:21 AM, Brett Carboni wrote: > I've just dragged hundreds of folders of MP3 files onto the dock. I > *was* > aiming for iTunes. Doh!. Bl**dy OSX. (BTW, G4/450 running 10.1.5). > > Anyone know hoy I can shift-select or delete the dock settings so I > can get > the dock back. It's filled with microscopic little things now. It > looks like > a serrated knife :-) > > PS Without using the terminal. > > T.I.A. > > Brett Carboni > Tsunami > "Bl**dy OSX!"
Just drag the folders out of the Dock. Or... >From the Finder: Go -> Home -> Library -> Preferences -> com.apple.dock.plist Make a copy of the file (in case anything goes wrong) Double-click the file and it will open in Property List Editor. Click on the little disclosure triangle next to "Root" and a list of properties will appear. Look for a property called "persistent-others". This has its own disclosure triangle, which will disclose its own list of properties numbered 0 to whatever number of items you have. Each of these properties has a property called "title-data", which in turn has a property called "file-label" which will identify the dock item for you. When you find one you want to remove. click on the title of the property (ie, 0, 1, 2, etc) and click the Delete button. You might just be able to delete the com.apple.dock.plist file, but I would suggest doing this from your Root account, so that it's re-created when you log back in as yourself. You could also try logging in as root and copying the com.apple.dock.plist from the root account into your Home account Library/Preferences folder, to take the Dock back to its original settings. -- Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, :::::::::::::::::::::::: Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482 Fax (618) 9332 0913 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
