Case of the Bouncing Icons?

Here's an odd, if seemingly harmless, one: The other day when I tried to launch Quicken from the dock its icon just bounced away happily but the application wouldn't open. Just for fun, I tried to launch Safari and then I had two hopping icons but neither application would open. They stopped dancing after a re-start and all appears normal once again.
Has anyone else seen this?
Thanks to all.
Paul

Hi Paul,
This sort of thing can happen. The icons in the Dock are just aliases to the apps., sometimes the 'link' from the alias to the app can become corrupted. Just one of those things…
If it happens again try dragging the offending icons off the dock, log out/in, then drag new icons into the dock from Applications.
All the best,
Adrian

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