HT201730 Dock Ions Bring Up Applications Window In Finder

Sometimes one or more icons in the Dock get wonky. When I click on certain icons the Finder window pops up with that Icon highlighted. Right now it' Safari, but not always. If I reboot it goes back to normal. At least for a while...

Try doing a Dock restart using the following Terminal command:
killall Dock
Log out/in and test. If that doesn’t work, you need to look in your user Library/Applications Support/Dock for the .db. Use the Finder “Go To Folder” command. Enter ~/Library/Applications Support/Dock. Move the .db to your desktop.
Then try a dock reset.
Applications/Utilities/Terminal enter the command
killall Dock
Log out/in test. If it works okay, delete the .db from the desktop.
If the Dock is the same, return the .db to where you got them from, overwriting the newer ones.

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