Dock keeps disappearing

My dock disappears and I have to go to the Apple icon and turn dock hiding on and then turn if off again for it to reappear. When it disappears, it is not "hiding" as I cannot access it unless I turn hiding on and then off or access applications/dock through Finder. Can anyone offer any advice as to how to prevent this from happening?

Hello n:
Welcome to Apple discussions.
Try trashing a preference file and restarting (com.apple.dock.plist).
Barry

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How do I keep it there permanently without constantly pressing the escape button - this is especially happening when in top sites on safari and the display goes full screen even though I don't believe I did anything to cause this. Thank you!

Hi hgbren,
If your Dock disappears when not in use - that is when you do not have your cursor over the area where it would be, you should check your Dock Preferences. Under the Apple menu > System Prefereces > Dock make sure that Automatically hide and show the Dock is not checked. See this article for reference -
Mac Basics: Customize the Dock - Apple Support
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Launch the Console 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 and start typing the name.
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In the top right corner of the Console window, there's a search box labeled Filter. Initially the words "String Matching" are shown in that box. Enter the name of the crashed application or process. For example, if Safari crashed, you would enter "Safari" (without the quotes.)
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☞ The log contains a vast amount of information, almost all of which is irrelevant to solving any particular problem. When posting a log extract, be selective. A few dozen lines are almost always more than enough.
Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.
☞ Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.
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In the Console window, select
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Hello,
Since some days, without any notable changes in my macbook pro, I can't move icons of dock into the dock, and I can't remove or add some ! And "keep in dock" option disappeared... I am under mac os 10.7.4.
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Tahnk you for your fast answer. I already tried that, and I repaired disk permissions.
But it didn't work

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There is a thread here that says 'SOLVED' but it was not solved for many people posting on that thread. Here is the URL for it:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7855781&#7855781
So, I have begun this new thread with the same topic. My dock icon (mail) keeps disappearing. It slides to the right then disappears. Moving the plist dock and db to the trash then rebooting does not fix this problem for me, nor many others on the initial thread. The problem is not specific to the 'mail' icon, other icons are affected as well.
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[IMG]http://i32.tinypic.com/2qkmc6e.png[/IMG]

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Might be corrupted Safari preferences (.plist)
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