Dock Items

Hello, I had a recent crash due to Tm backing up on TC, now some of my dock items are not visable (Finder/Trash/Dashboard) how do I get them back, I can see they are there and they will open but the is a blank space??
thanks in advance

Look harder, it is right where pullman says buried in a long list of "com.apple..." files.
Go to /Users/YourHome/Library/Preferences and delete these 2 files /com.apple.dock.plist
and com.aplle.dock.db.plist
Then restart. This will give you the default Dock, so you'll have to reset yours the way you like it)
-mj
Message was edited by: macjack

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