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From: D.M. Procida on 9 Jan 2010 19:41 Anthony R. Gold <not-for-mail(a)ahjg.co.uk> wrote: > Along the left side of her desktop is a self-hiding system tray that she > calls the "dock" with what appears to be a list of links to various items > including folders and programs etc. There used to be a folder visible > there called "Applications" but that has disappeared leaving what appears > to be an empty hole in the list, but when the cursor passes over this hole > the cursor takes on the appearance of a vertical line with outward arrows > towards the left and right - say like this: <|>. Maybe the Applications > link is still there but in some altered and invisible state. You're right, the Dock is nothing but a list of links to things that exist anywhere else. If you want to remove something from the Dock, you pull it off (which is probably what she did). If you want to put something on the Dock, you drag it to the Dock. So grab hold of the Applications folder, and drop it back on the Dock. The one complication is that the Dock is divided into two parts. The first part contains links to applications. The other part contains links to folders and files. To put an application into the Dock, drop it into this second part of the Dock - the part after the divider. That divider by the way is one mechanism to resize the Dock - just drag the resizer to see it at work. I'm not sure about this empty hole in her Dock - you may be able to drag the nothingness out of it, if you see what I mean. The only thing I'd worry about is the fact that the Dock is on the left-hand-side, which is obviously incorrect, and all normal decent sensible people have it on the right. Daniele
From: Mike Dee on 9 Jan 2010 22:52 real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk (D.M. Procida) wrote: > The only thing I'd worry about is the fact that the Dock is on the > left-hand-side, which is obviously incorrect, and all normal decent > sensible people have it on the right. Unless she is left-handed, perhaps? I don't know, just it seems to me the only reason you might want to do that ;-) -- dee
From: Rob on 9 Jan 2010 23:57 On 10/01/2010 03:52, Mike Dee wrote: > real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk (D.M. Procida) wrote: > >> The only thing I'd worry about is the fact that the Dock is on the >> left-hand-side, which is obviously incorrect, and all normal decent >> sensible people have it on the right. > > Unless she is left-handed, perhaps? I don't know, just it seems to me > the only reason you might want to do that ;-) > Mmmm. I'm right handed, yet a Dock leftie. OP - go Finder, Macintosh HD, Applications - drag that folder to the Dock, to the portion below the serrated divider, where the cursor goes <I>. Worked for me, but having just tested with another folder it seemed to want to copy the contents of the folder to the dock . . . Rob
From: Andrew Kemp on 10 Jan 2010 01:33 Colin Harper <colinharper(a)x.com.invalid> writes: > [1] does that stripy roadway separator in the dock have a name? The help page for the Dock refers to it as "the Dock's separator line". -- Drew
From: Chris Ridd on 10 Jan 2010 02:16
On 2010-01-10 00:41:53 +0000, D.M. Procida said: > I'm not sure about this empty hole in her Dock - you may be able to drag > the nothingness out of it, if you see what I mean. It sounds like the "empty hole" is actually the dock separator line, especially as the mouse changes shape to an | when hovering over it. -- Chris |