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Dock thinks Finder is not running
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Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2000
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Sometimes when I start up, the Dock does not show a little black triangle under the Finder icon. The Finder is running, and has no other problems. if I click the Dock icon for the Finder, the Finder comes forward like normal, but I can't select the Finder with cmd-tab. If I force quit (relaunch) the Finder, then the Dock will show the triangle.
Any suggestions?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2001
Location: NYC
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Originally posted by jayg:
Sometimes when I start up, the Dock does not show a little black triangle under the Finder icon. The Finder is running, and has no other problems. if I click the Dock icon for the Finder, the Finder comes forward like normal, but I can't select the Finder with cmd-tab. If I force quit (relaunch) the Finder, then the Dock will show the triangle.
Any suggestions?
This happens to me too on occasion. Relaunching the Finder from the Force Quit dialog, or relaunching the Dock (or Finder) from either Terminal (via top) or Process Viewer seems to fix it.
Annoying, but not such a big deal. 
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2000
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Purge the dock prefs plist?
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Senior User
Join Date: Jan 2001
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I am seeing this issue too. Until I reboot it's fine if I restart the finder once.
Purging Finder Prefs does not help so far, purging Dock prefs did not help either. Strange.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jun 2000
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I get the same thing too. Somtimes the triangle is there, sometimes not. Everything seems to work as normal though. 
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Forum Regular
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Boston, MA
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I had this same problem yesterday, for the first time. I could click on the icon to bring the Finder to the front, oddly enough. Logging out was the only way I could fix it.
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Addicted to Themes
Join Date: Oct 2001
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I've had this problem a number of times.. Is it a bug with a security release or something?
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: May 2002
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I think relaunching the dock would bring
it back to it's senses. But may be not for long 
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Join Date: Dec 2002
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This is a bug in APE 1.3 and ClearDock. Happens on first login, and sometimes on subsequent logins after a restart. Its harmless, but disabling APE will make it go away.
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I've disabled APE; I wasn't using it for anything anyway. I'll see if that fixes it. Thanks.
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Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2000
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I've both disabled APE and thrown away the Dock's plist preferences. The problem continues 
Any other ideas?
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Aug 2001
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i noticed the same problem on occasion as well....but this week i updated fruit menu. silk (and whatever tidbits they install) and i've not had it happen since (yet).
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Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity...
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