Double question mark in Dock

The font type of the question mark (which appears in the Dock when an item can't be found) seems to be changed since Snow Leopard. That's okay, but when you click on it (to get a dialog box to look for the lost item) the old type question mark will appear straight through the new type, leaving a 'double question mark' in the Dock. Anyone else experienced this graphic glitch..?

HI,
That's interesting! But one thing that might help is trashing the Dock preference file.
com.apple.dock.plist
/Users/YourName/Library/Preferences. Drag that .plist file to the Trash, empty the Trash and restart your Mac.
Maybe now you can drag a ? off the Dock without the glitch.
Carolyn

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I am resurrecting my old iMacG5 for my grandson. Appleworks has question mark in dock and does not load from bundled software on original installation discs. Can anyone help?

I'm sorry no-one has answered you yet - I'm afraid I don't know the answer to the question: but I wanted to put into your mind that starting up with AppleWorks at this stage isn't a good idea. The program was 'end-of-lifed' years ago, it won't run on Lion, and some of the document types created in it - Databases in particular - cannot be opened at all by any other program whatever. Word Processing documents can be opened in Pages, and Spreadsheets in Numbers (with some reservations in both cases), but building up a collection of AppleWorks documents at this stage is going to lead to problems later on.
It's difficult to know what to recommend for a PowerPC machine that would still be compatible with modern ones. An older version of Microsoft Office, perhaps, if you can find one which will run on PPC; but most of the modern Word Processors are Intel only. This is something you would need to investigate.

Question Marks in Dock on users network profiles

Hello everyone,
I have a problem where my user's network profiles have question marks in their docks.
I am running OS 10.4.10 Server on a MacPro with 6 Intel iMacs all running 10.4.10. When I installed the iMacs I used CarbonCopyCloner so all the software is identical. The disk names are the same and all Applications are the same.
When a user works on one of the iMacs and then moves to a different iMac they seem to loose the icons for their applications in the dock, when you click on the icon usually the application will launch and regenerate the icon. Somtimes and mostly with Indesign the icon will become an alias to a folder within the .app!
This is strange behavior! And it does it on around 10 user logins!
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I've had similar experiences to many here. Running Tiger server with Tiger clients. Everything was hunky-dory until 10.4.10 update came out. Then I experienced all types of strange dock problems. Not only would I get docks with question marks, some items would have an icon but it would be the wrong one and the bad icons didn't point to the original applications.
This article shed some light on the subject:
http://benkreeger.com/blog/2007/09/mac-os-x-10410-breaks-dock-app.html
After reading this article and running some tests, I've given up on managing the dock from WGM.
Here is what I did:
Made the perfect dock. Then edited the plist with a plist editor and got rid of _CFURLAliasData key/string for each application. I then copied this edited plist to the User Template of all clients with ARD. I also copied it to the User Template on the server. Finally I wrote a script that replaced the dock plist with the "new and improved" dock for each user inside of the network homes directory.
Since then, no ? ? ? in dock. No bad icons either. And when a new user is created they get a good dock as well.
Hopefully Leopard won't find a way to mess this up.

Persistent Question Mark In Dock, How Can I Remove It?

I deleted an app ensuring that all that app's files were deleted, using EasyFind.
Where that app's icon existed in my dock, there now appears a question mark, and I cannot get rid of it. Anyone know how?

HI,
Delete this file from your Preferences folder.
com.apple.dock.plist
/Users/YourName/Library/Preferences. Drag that file from the Preferences folder to the Trash, empty the Trash and restart your Mac. If the ? mark is still in the Dock, try dragging it off now.
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Application moved error and question marks for dock app icons - related?

i am reposting this in the Mac Pro forum in addition to the Mountain Lion forum as i have been posting various issues on the mac pro here and i have gotten great help in solving them. also i am hoping to put a finishing touch on my computer setup after having done a FRESH INSTALL of the OS on both my computers with a manual migration of data (no Library items) so as to try and resolve old issues. i hope the experts on the list do not mind this posting and/or can offer advice on this specific issue.
i am getting the attached error this morning on my MacBookPro (Mountain Lion) and have gotten it before on my Mac Pro (Lion). i have had to do a fresh install of the OS and a manual migration of my data (no Library settings etc) due to slightly similar issues.
does anyone know what this errror is saying has happened?
i /did/ have an additional internal hard drive on the MAC PRO that Spotlight was indexing and which i had to take off of the Spotlight indexing functionality but this does not explain in any way (since there are no additional HD's on my macbookpro) why it just happened this morning on the macbookpro.
is this related to an issue where there may be QUESTION MARKS (instead of an app icon) in the dock in some of my other software?? i have one of these on my MBP and one on my MacPro even after the fresh install.
TIA

The Dock stores Aliases to the actual Applications. When you get a question Mark, it is caused by a Bad Link. The Application may have changed versions, moved, or been deleted. There is nothing especially magical about this. You can remove a Bad Link by dragging the link off the Dock, or add a proper link by dragging the Application Icon onto the correct area of the Dock.
OS X Mountain Lion: Customize the Dock
Apple-installed Applications need to remain in the Applications folder so that they remain protected and can be updated properly. The Installer will attempt to add links that point to the current Applications in the Applications folder, but if you have a pre-existing Bad Alias your bad Alias will not be Trashed. This may give you either the "moved..." message, or the Question Mark Icon in the Dock, or a grayed-out Icon with a "prohibited sign" if you have added things not appropriate for this version of Mac OS X.

Question Marks in Dock

My computer had been having problems so I went to the genius bar and they reinstalled Leopard for me. Now I'm trying to change all my settings back to how they were but iPhoto and iMovie show up as question marks in the dock. What's going on?

Hi there,
It sounds like the people at the Genius Bar only reinstalled Leopard. iCal and iTunes are part of Leopard, but iPhoto and iMovie are part of iLife, and will be on the discs that came with your Mac.
Insert the Disc, and choose to reinstall Bundled Software - iLife, which is iPhoto, iMovie, iDvd and GarageBand will then be on your Mac (make sure you run Software Update after installing, there will be updates for each App). You might want to choose just iPhoto and iMovie and save drive space - GarageBand takes up quite a few GBs by itself.
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Question Mark on docking bar

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Getting rid of question mark in dock.

I've read Apple Knowledge Base and can not find how to get rid of the question mark icon in the dock.

Control-click them and choose Remove from Dock.
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I had a problem which left a question mark (?) in the dock which I can't remove. When you click on it the identity shows Quicken 2005. Can' drag it out of the Dock to remove it. Next to it is a symbol for Quicken, which opens Quicken 2005 properly. Anyone know how to remove the unwanted question mark?

Deming... control-click/right-click on that icon in the dock and see if you get a choice to ...quit Application....... then drag it out of the Dock.
or try this...
Delete ....
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist
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Question mark in Dock

I have a ? in the dock for iCal. It cannot be dragged off the dock.
When I right+click on the ?, the options menu pops up yet it never says "remove from dock".
I have deleted the com.apple.dock.plist and the com.apple.dock.db
I have repaired permissions.
I have used Onyx to delete the Dock cache.
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Ignore it. It is a side effect of using Onyx. Just put another copy of iCal in your Dock, and make sure it is residin your Applications folder. The Dock is merely a shortcut bar, and so is the Finder's left sidebar. If you dragged an item into that area and a slip of the finger might have moved it to a folder, look in that folder for that item.
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Advanced generics - double question mark

Could someone speak a bit on the following advanced generic topic. Why exactly is the second line in the main method a compliation error but the third is not?
Thanks.
public class GenericTest {
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class P1<T> {
class P2<T> {
class A {
class B extends A {
class C extends B {
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Question marks on some applications in dock

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*/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchS ervices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user*

I updated to Yosemite and now I can't open my YNAB finance app. There is a question mark in the Dock where the App should be and when I hover over the question mark it does say YNAB but I can't open it.

I updated to Yosemite and now I can't open my YNAB finance app. There is a question mark in the Dock where the App should be and when I hover over the question mark it does say YNAB but I can't open it. When I double click on the question mark nothing happens. Has the link to YNAB been broken with the update? Has this happened to anyone else?

Check the Application folder.
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Dock Icons become QUESTION MARKS

i have DOCK ICONS that i have told to stay in the dock (this is how i start the programs) and every two weeks or so one or another one of these suddenly shows up as a BIG QUESTION MARK.
i asked this once before and someone said i should just drag the icon off and start the program again and make sure to tell it to stay in the dock.
but this is a major pain and makes it seem like there is something wrong with the OS not to mention it is really annoying to have to constantly re-organized my desktop.
does anyone know WHY this may happen and if so HOW to keep it from happening?
i mean, is there a PATH that gets linked to this icon and moving this data will somehow create the question mark? some other explanation?
TIA for any help.

hi kappy. again a BIG THANK YOU for helping me on this.
these are good points but there is definitely a different set of aspects to working on a mac with respect to the workflows regarding app install but i am not technically knowledgeable enough to tell you why this is so. i can just say that it is very confusing and it could use some cleaning up. just the fact that i have to post this question is an indication of this IMHO.
also, at the same time one simply has to look at all the Application folders on the mac and the various ways they are accessed or pointed to. when you say something like you just have to (manually) put the app file in the applications folder these things are all over the place.
i have an "Applications" folder under my Home folder that has two folders and one application that has installed themselves there. then i have a Dock icon that says Applications that has a list of programs, and then i have a desktop shortcut that has a list of items. if i ask myself the reasonable question of - well - HOW do i drag and drop the .app file into the Applications folder like i am supposed to, or WHERE is the Applications folder that shows all the items in my desktop shortcut or in the dock icon - - reasonable (and reasonably intelligent) people might be completely stumped.
now i /know/ that this "other" Applications folder is actually listed under my HARD DRIVE icon and not my home folder because if i double click on the desktop icon or if i open the dock icon in finder i can see that this is the case. however, this means that we are talking about something that is HIDDEN from the user on the mac OS. so for me to MANUALLY add a . app file to the Applications folder i somehow have to - well - presumably i have to make the leap of faith that when i add this file to my DESKTOP ICON i am adding it to the correct (hidden) folder and not to the one that i can see plain as day in my Home Folder but which appears to contain next to nothing.
I mean, i am manually adding an app to a desktop icon that has the same name as another folder so that it arrives in a hidden folder with the same name. this is ridiculous. this is just dumb and probably goes a long way toward adding to the confusion. the fact that the Home Folder level Application folder is the one that is visible is even dumber.
again, a set of prompts upon program installation might be a Mac OS level need and not something that should devolve down to the developers who probably have enough on their hands trying to keep up with changes in the from OS to OS.
as a concrete example on this thread - the answer my issue is that either there is no .app file in the /hidden/ Applications folder for the dock icon to continue to reference or that the ICON was added to the dock while the .app file was somewhere and now it is no longer seeing this .app file where it originally saw it.
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Hi Forum, can u please help? iRecently bought a mac pro & my garageband 11 was working fine but now it's showing a question mark in the dock but it won't open. I think it may have been accidentally trashed. I've searched the trash & spotlighted. What now?

Hi Forum, can u please help? iRecently bought a macbook pro and garageband 11 was working fine but now it's showing a question mark in the dock and it won't open. I think it may have been accidentally trashed. I've searched the trash and spotlighted but don't know what to do next. Any ideas? Thanks.

How did you install GarageBand on your Mac? Did it come preinstalled with the other iLife applications?
If your MacOS supports the AppStore, you should be able to redownload GarageBand from the AppStore, see this support Article: OS X: About OS X Recovery on how to download again:
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Enter your Apple ID and password.
Click Purchases.
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