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What happened in my dock?
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Jan 24, 2004, 01:02 PM
 
What happened to cause the icon next to list items in the dock pop-up menus to appear like this rather than the standard window icon?

     
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Jan 24, 2004, 01:12 PM
 
A bug. I don't know what causes it. Maybe nobody knows yet.
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Jan 24, 2004, 01:25 PM
 
You have the same problem? My wife's Powerbook also running 10.3.2 does not do this. My G5 does.

Also, it appears to be some sort of font issue as I also have trouble in, say, Excel when opening a password protected file. Instead of showing me nice bullet points per character as I type my password I receive some random other character. Anyone know what system font is being used? How to make sure mine hasn't been corrupted?
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Jan 24, 2004, 01:42 PM
 
I haven't seen that in the Dock before, but I have seen that happen sometimes with Finder icons. It may be due to a corrupted LaunchServices cache - you might want to try deleting any files in /Library/Caches/ and ~/Library/Caches/ whose names start with /Library/Caches/com.apple.LaunchServices.

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Jan 24, 2004, 02:36 PM
 
Originally posted by CharlesS:
I haven't seen that in the Dock before, but I have seen that happen sometimes with Finder icons. It may be due to a corrupted LaunchServices cache - you might want to try deleting any files in /Library/Caches/ and ~/Library/Caches/ whose names start with /Library/Caches/com.apple.LaunchServices.
I would also delete files starting with com.apple.dock.iconcache
     
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Jan 25, 2004, 07:29 AM
 
Honestly, I just rebooted (ack, that was the first time in months other than OS updates) and it cleared up the dock problem. The Excel problem (not showing bullets when typing a password) still exists.
     
   
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