Disappearing icon/application in dock

More often than not when I quit Pages I lose the icon on the dock that has all the icons on it. So I have to go to the magnifying glass in the top right hand corner to bring pages back onto the screen. What can i do to make sure the Pages icon doen't disappear from the dock?

Look in the Pages menus for the options and short cut keys.
Closing a document but keep the application Pages open use
To Quit the application use

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Disappearing Icons in the Dock on Restart

When I restart my computer, the icons in my dock rearrange and two in particular disappear. The same ones disappear each time. HELP!

Removing the com.apple.dock.plist and restarting solved the problem for me too. My problem was that my 'Preview' icon on my Dock became invisible; there was a space where it used to be, and clicking in the space still opened Preview, but you couldn't see it. After doing the procedure above, it brought back the Dock like it was on the original install of Snow Leopard. I just had to drag some applications to the Dock again to make it like it was. And when I dragged Preview to the Dock, it finally appeared! (I had tried repairing the disc from the OS X install disc, etc. and nothing worked before this.) Thanks again soooo much!

There's this mysterious appearing/disappearing icon in my Dock...

...that every so often spontaneously opens up, then closes right away. I can never get a good look at it, but it appears to be a white "page" (like the TextEdit dock icon) with what looks like a green part in the upper left corner and a black part in the lower right area.
What application might that icon belong to? And should I worry about it?

To clarify, it doesn't happen after each loading of a webpage -- I'm not even sure if it is triggered by opening a web page at all. Sometimes I'll just be watching the screen and it will happen.
Again, the trouble is that the icon just appears and disappears in the Dock before I can get a good look.
I'll try to take a full-screen snapshot (Command-Shift-3) the next time it appears, and hopefully I'll catch it in time...

Disappearing icons in my dock

So my wife and I just purchased our very first iMac. Wicked awesome. But I was playing around with my dock station and accidentally removed the two icons that were originally to the left of the Trash. These were the pdf and download icons. Where did they go and how can I put them back onto the dock? I looked in Finder but couldn't see them. Please help me.

The Downloads folder is at
<startup volume>/Users/<your short user name>/Downloads/
Show the icon for the Downloads folder in any Finder window. Click and hold on it, and drag it to the Dock to the right of the vertical line. Drop it where you want it. Once you drop it, you can drag it around to change the exact location, but if you drop it off the Dock, it disappears in a poof.
Note: You can add any document or folder to the right side of the vertical line. To the left side of the vertical line, you can add any application. Just drag and drop the application icon as you did above. You can remove apps you do not use often from the Dock. Applications are located at
<startup volume>/Applications/
<startup volume>/Applications/Utilities/
I'm not sure what the "pdf" icon is. Could that be the Documents folder? It's located at the same place as Downloads. Just do the same thing.

Somehow my application icon in the dock has disappeared and I have no idea where it went or how to get it back. I am not all that computer knowledgeable. Thanks for your help.

Somehow my application icon in the dock has disappeared. I have no idea where it went but it contains all my applications that i use. How do I get the application icon to return to the dock. Thanks for your help. I am not computer literate by any means. Thanks

Goto your application folder, find your app then drag/drop it back to the dock.

Using OS 10-6-8. For no apparent reason, mail refused to open and the icon in the dock changed and the application has disappeared except in iWork. Under Iwork, the message says: "yoou tried to open Mail version 4.5 (1084/1085) in: /Applications/iWork '06

Using OS 10-6-8. For no apparent reason, mail refused to open, the icon in the dock changed appearance and the application has disappeared except in iWork. Under Iwork, the message says: "you tried to open Mail version 4.5 (1084/1085) in: /Applications/iWork '06. Using OS 10-6-8. It can't be used on thius version of Mac OS X. Try opening the version of Mail located in the Applications folder..." How do I get back to mail and retrieve my existing messages?

You should consider downloading the 10.6.8 combo updater and applying it again.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1399
Pondini has a great page about upgrading.
http://pondini.org/OSX/Combo.html

I have a problem with iphoto (have a mac book pro): the icon in the dock appears with a question mark, and the application is gone!!! Can someone tell what's going on? Yesterday I had the same problem with itunes

I have a problem with iphoto (have a mac book pro): the icon in the dock appears with a question mark, and the application is gone!!! Can someone tell what's going on? Yesterday I had the same problem with itunes: I downloaded the last version (it's free), but I cannot do the same with iphoto, and more important: I need to know what is happening!!! Please help me!

Applications should not disappear all by themselves.
If they are then that coud indicate serious problems with your hard drive.
Backup everything up as quickly as possible.
Using Disk Utility verify your system disk.
Allan

I have Mac OS10.4.11 with MS Office 2004 installed. Yesterday, when clicking on the Entourage icon, in the dock, to receive my Email, the icon disappeared and I lost my Email service from the HD and from Spotlight, as well. Word, Excel and PP are still OK

I have Mac OS10.4.11 with MS Office 2004 for Mac, installed. Yesterday, when clicking on the Entourage icon, in the dock, to receive my Email, the icon disappeared and I lost my Email service from the HD and from Spotlight, as well. Word, Excel and PP are still OK. Could this be a virus?

Just thinking, if things are really missing...
"Try Disk Utility
1. Insert the Mac OS X Tiger Install disc, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Select your Mac OS X volume.
5. Click Repair. Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Then try a Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it completes.
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Icons in the dock disappear on wakeup

since upgrading to Mavericks, application icons in the Dock disappear on wakeup or even after full restart.
sometimes it helps if I click on the placeholder in the Dock - it starts the application and the icon re-appears. at other times they all appear ok if I restart the computer.

Back up all data.
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Application Support/Dock
Caches/com.apple.dock
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Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.dock.*.plist
Preferences/com.apple.dock.db
Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist
Here “*” stands for a long string of letters and numbers.
Next, triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
open $TMPDIR../C
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C.
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the page that opens.
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Log out, log back in, and test. If you still have the issue, put the items on the Desktop back where they came from and post again. Otherwise, delete the items.

The itunes application icon on my dock does not bring up itunes. Haven't had a problem with this in the past.

The itunes application icon on my dock does not bring up itunes. I have no problem accessing itunes from my iphone though, so I believe it is computer related rather than an itunes issue. Haven't had this problem before.

Does the icon in your dock look like this?
Can you open iTunes successfully from your Mac's Applications folder?
Are you running the current version of iTunes (11.2.2)? If not, get it from here:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download

Disappearing Icons From Dock

Within the past week or so, for no particular reason I can identify, my iTunes icon in my dock has disappeared. There is currently a space where it should be and when I move my cursor over it it says iTunes, but there is no icon. It is like it's invisible. This has also happened recently when I have downloaded content, say a pdf file, that then automatically opens. The Preview app opens the document fine, but then another invisible icon appears (or not, cause it's invisible) in my doc for Preview. Just like the iTunes icon, it's there, and when I move over it with my cursor, it shows it's there, but the graphical icon is just not visible.
Any clues or solutions for this? Thanks!

It may be LaunchServices. These are only cache files but can get corrupted.
Launch /Utilities/Terminal and copy & paste this at the command line to rebuild LaunchServices:
Code:
<pre class="alt2" style="margin:0px; padding:3px; border:1px inset; width:640px; height:34px; overflow:auto">/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchSe rvices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user</pre>
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-mj

I had question marks on a few of my icons in the dock of my imac, then went to find them in my applications folder and there is absoluteley nothing there!

I had a few question marks on my icons in the dock, then went to find them in the applications folder only to discover there is nothing in there???

Sorry, i just turned my computer on......I noticed the question marks only when i went to open photoshop only to discover i couldn't. Along with Illustrator and Bridge ......everything was working the day before with no hitches.

Replacing the Applications Icon in the Dock, not just with an Applications alias--two different things

There is at least one answer to my question posted here, except it's not quite accurate. I too accidentally yanked my Applications folder from the Dock (which, by the way, is very easy to do, so in the way is the Dock. It's just very easy to drag it or any other icon in the dock out accidentally while working in a another programs, most particularly perhaps while working furiously back and forth across the screen in a grahics program. And hiding the Dock doesn't help because one is constantly bumping the sides of the screen with the mouse. In fact, choosing to hide the Dock might make matters worse because one forgets it's there. That's what happened--I accidentally grabbed it and pulled it out.
I thought to put back an alias out of Finder and it works okay, but not like before. The old Applications icon wasn't just an alias (and I don't recall there being a shortcut symbol attached to the old Applications Icon). Now when I click on it I don't get the balloon that used to pop up dislaying all of my program as large icons. Instead I just get a Finder-style list of my applications such that it's harder to locate the program I want to use.
What I really want back is the old Icon that worked as it used to work and that installs with the orginal installation of Snow Leopard. Does anyone know how to get that one back? Thanks,

FYI - All Dock icons are aliases, however they don't show the curly arrow.
To view your folder contents as you wish, right-click on the icon and choose the view options -
"display as" 'folder' will just show the folder, 'Stack' will show the first application in the folder (usually Adress Book).
View contenta as - list or grid - no fan option when the Dock's at the side (as it sounds like yours is).
EDIT
Incidentally, if you've dragged an alias to the Dock instead of the actual folder from Finder, you now have an alias pointing to another alias pointing to the Applications folder.
Bit unnecesary.
Message was edited by: noondaywitch

Application folder icon in the Dock has a thick red bar

The application folder icon in the Dock has a thick red bar across the top back. What does this mean? Assuming red is a negative indicator, how do I fix the issue?
Thank you.

Problem solved.
It was the top of a red icon in the folder (Adobe of course). Found this out by arranging by kind rather then name.
Feeling kind of red (faced) myself at this point.

IF you accidentally delete the applications icon on your dock, how do you get it back there.

If you accidentally delete the Apllication icon on your dock, how do you add it back there???

You click on the hard disk in the Finder's sidebar and drag it back from there. In recent Mac OS X versions, you can also drag it there directly from the sidebar.
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