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shadowofleaves · May 25, 2004, 03:58 AM

I just installed skin a dock. The dock looks cool and everything but I cannot figure out how to revert it back to the normal OS' dock. Thanks for your help.

Caesar2099 · May 25, 2004, 09:39 AM

are you using os 10.3 or 10.2?

eyevaan · May 25, 2004, 09:49 AM

I had trouble in 10.3 getting it to take. I love some of the skins but it was really irratic whether it would apply or not.

shadowofleaves · May 25, 2004, 01:26 PM

im using 10.3

the skin looks great i just want to be able to remoev it if neeed be

Ozzpot · May 25, 2004, 01:28 PM

I'm surprised in worked at all in Panther because it does not support it. I couldn't get it to do anything in Panther.

As far as the original question goes - I can't remember exactly but I'm sure there is an option or checkbox in the preference pane that let's you turn it off. I don't remember having trouble doing this before. I don't have Jaguar anymore so I can't check.

shadowofleaves · May 25, 2004, 01:38 PM

in the skin a dock pref pane there is a check box "dock modifications active" i can uncheck it and it does nothing

but lemme try it again

shadowofleaves · May 25, 2004, 01:40 PM

yeah so i unchecked that box
applied, did a log out

still the same

Ozzpot · May 25, 2004, 02:53 PM

Somebody posted a review on MacUpdate saying they tried this on Panther and it kind of works sometimes but is very unstable. It isn't made for Panther at all, so I wouldn't be surprised if it caused major problems. I use Cleardock now (which just adjusts the color and transparency of the dock background). That creates a backup of the original dock which may be what it relies on to revert back to normal. If Skin-a-dock did not do this correctly it may not be able to revert back.

Remember, it is only a Beta, and a Jaguar-only Beta at that! Hopefully there will be a simple fix for what has been messed up but I don't know what that is I'm afraid.

Makki · May 25, 2004, 02:54 PM

Not meaning to sound cynical or anything but umm maybe check compatibility before using software. It will save you these headaches man.

Makki

Fonzie · May 25, 2004, 03:40 PM

Maybe try and disable Skin-a-Dock and logout and in again ? Just do the thing you did before and remove the APE file.

shadowofleaves · May 25, 2004, 04:24 PM

did that
the dock still remains

Fonzie · May 25, 2004, 04:41 PM

I remember doing somewhat the same thing. installing and trying to get it to work on Panther. But somehow it worked out for me - the uninstalling part. I believe there is something in the Cache folder that can be deleted named something with "icon.cache"

shadowofleaves · May 25, 2004, 04:57 PM

i dont have anything remotely close to that in my cache folder
but ive trashed the prefpane and still nothing..

d4nth3m4n · May 25, 2004, 05:07 PM

can you get pacifist and install a new dock.app? that might work for you. either that or trash the prefs and clear the caches with cocktail...

good luck.