My mail dock icon disappears in seconds.

I have dragged the app to my dock, and within a second or 2 it just vanished. The app works fine when launched from the application folder. Very strange.
I deleted the PLIST dock files and even requested the dock icons not be synched between my systems. Rebooted twice.

try restarting the dock in Activity Monitor

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Mail dock icon problem

The Mail dock icon always shows there are 7 unread messages in my inbox, when there are none. When there are some, their number is added to 7. This developed after I migrated the contents of my drive to my new computer.
How can I get rid of the omnipresent number?

I dont know how to solve this, but im guessing that the 7 could be from your old computer's mail application and theres probably a hidden file somewhere in the system that is keeping it there. :P

RSS count on Mail dock icon

Pretty simple really, I want the RSS count to appear on my mail dock icon.
here is the catch though. I know you can achieve this by selecting the "Show in Inbox" option for each feed, but then I end up with a huge list of RSS feeds in my Inbox section in the sidebar. This is very Annoying. It would be fine If I could put all these RSS feeds in a folder within the inbox section but mail wont let me do this. So how can i see the unread RSS count on the dock icon without having a list of about 50 RSS feeds in the Inbox section of my mail sidebar?????

Mail Badger lets you set up a separate dock badge for RSS feeds.
Works great. Now if Mail would just update my RSS feeds like it's supposed to.....

Mail Dock Icon - Red Circle

Just upgraded to Leopard on my G5 (from 10.4.11 to 10.5.1 to 10.5.2) with Mail v 3.2
The Mail Dock Icon has a Red Dot with the # 84 in it (was 104 but I opened 20 emails & it came down to 84).
There are no unopened messages in any of my Mailboxes (that I can find).
Any idea where the 'Hidden' emails are located?
(This icon indicator worked fine before my upgrade)
Thanks for any suggestions.
...John

Same problem, John -- though my number is 51. Do hope someone out there can be of help!

Mail dock icon has vanished

Hi, I have a strange problem with my Mail dock icon. It is completely transparent. It is still there, but I can't see it, I see an empty space, with only the 'Mail' text on top of it. I still can click it to open up mail. I already tried to remove it and add a new alias - and rebooted the computer. The Mail icon in the dock has vanished...

Have you tried trashing the mail.plist file from your Home Preferences folder?
Disconnect all peripherals from your computer. Boot from your install disc & run _*Repair Disk*_ from the utility menu. To use the Install Mac OS X disc, insert the disc, and restart your computer while holding down the C key as it starts up.
Select your language.
Once on the desktop, select Utility in the menu bar.
Select *Disk Utility.*
Select the disk or volume in the list of disks and volumes, and then click *First Aid.*
Click _*Repair Disk.*_
Restart your computer when done.
Repair permissions after you reach the desktop

Dock icons disappear after 10.5.7 upgrade & .mac sync

Hi -
I have recently upgraded to 10.5.7, but now I am "loosing" dock icons after a .Mac (mobileme) sync. If I place an icon in the dock, it will remain in-place for about ~5 seconds then disappear completely.
I tried renaming my ~/Library, logging out then logging in, and although it was a "fresh" user the dock was working correctly (I could drag apps into it just fine with disappearing).
When I replaced my real ~/Library, the disappearing dock icon issue returned.
Has anyone else experienced this, or does anyone know what is going on with the 10.5.7 upgrade to cause this issue? I have quite a lot of necessary things in my Library (about 21gb worth) so can't really do without it.
TIA,
C.

Thanks for your reply.
I couldn't reset the mobile me sync data; the settings would not save and also my various machines which are sync'ed via mobile me were not displayed.
So I used TimeMachine to restore a copy of my Library (from a version which was about a week old) and all seems back to normal now. I then reset the sync database as you suggested, which worked fine. Thank goodness for backups!

ALL the Icons disappear for seconds after using five-finger-gesture and swipe to another page in the home screen

Hello,
iPad Air, 8.1.2
This issue has been making me annoyed for a long time...
You can find the bug by following steps:
1). Go to Settings APP.
2). Use five-finger-gesture to close this APP, and quickly swipe to another page of home screen before the icons in the current page haven't dropped down.( I mean...The animation that likes icons dropping down)
3). You can see ALL the icons will disappear for seconds.
I've restored the firmware again and again, but it doesn't helped at all...
And if I turn on the "reduce motion" option, the icons won't disappear.
And...Some little bugs:
1) In APP switcher, when swiping up to close APPs, the icon's animation is lost. (I mean...The icons shouldn't disappear without any animations. In iOS7, the icons should have a "closing animation"
2)In lock screen, press the power button with a very high speed, and you will see the "time" in the lock screen is being appeared and disappeared, appeared and disappeared, appeared and disappeared...
I hope you can understand me, I'm sorry for my bad English, I'm a middle school student in China, and I have to report these bugs.

I am not seeing that problem, however, this is a user forum. You aren't talking to Apple here.
if you want to report a problem to Apple use this: http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html

Disabling certain mail accounts from "new message count" in Mail dock icon

Hi,
I'd like to disable two of my mail accounts from affecting the new message count that appears over mail's dock icon. How might I do this?
Thanks in advace

the only option you have is to choose between all mailboxes and inbox, in mail>preferences>general
other than that, you may want to look at plugins such as dockstar to do more customization of the notification features: http://www.ecamm.com/mac/dockstar/
hope this helps

Mail Dock Icon

Is there a way to stop new junk folder/Bulk messages from displaying as a new messages in the dock icon?

Yes, Mail > Preferences > General tab > Set Dock unread count: to Inbox only.
Regards,
Captfred

Dock icons disappear when quitting apps

This is a brand new 1.9 GHz 17" iMac G5 with iSight built-in.
Software is up to date with OS 10.4.3 and all patches.
While working with the owner today, I quit Safari, and watched the Safari icon disappear from the dock. No smoke no nothing--when the App closed, the icon vanished.
Then I tried to demo iChat--and had the same experience.
It isn't a problem to drag the apps back to the Dock, but it shouldn't have to be done.
I finally wound up launching/quitting all Apps - all finally behaved properly, at least today.
Ideas on what's happening and how to prevent?

Ohairy, I'd guess that it was a corrupt plist. ~/library/preferences/com.apple.dock.plist.
Create a new account, name it "test" and see how the Dock icons work in that User acct? (That will tell if your problem is systemwide or limited to your User acct.)
If the Dock icons function normally in the new user, I'd delete the plist and rebuild the Dock icons.
If other "odd" issues begin to show up it may indicate hardware problems with added ram, cpu or hard disk. Run Disk Repair & AHT (Apple Hardware Test).
-mj
[email protected]

Cannot drag files to mail dock icon to compose new message with attachment

Hello,
I can no longer drag images or files to the dock icon to open a compose message window with the attachment. I drag the file and nothing happens.
I first noticed using skitch. Then I tried both a jpg and word .docx from finder and neither worked. I then tried dragging to other applications like photoshop and that worked fine. So it seems to be isolated to mail.app
I tried repairing my permissions and that didn't fix the problem.
I am using the latest version of Snow Leopard, 10.6.2
Lori

Alright well the problem is back and I did some further testing.
It works when mail.app is not already open, I can drag images or any type of file to mail, mail will open and create a new message with the attachment.
IF mail is already open, the only thing I've been able to drag are links from safari, images or files no longer work.
Lori

HT2474 Dock icons disappear

How do I keep the dock icons on the screen while on a webpage. I disappears and takes a little effort to get it come back up again. How can keep it there all the time? Tried using the system preferences but it doesn't have that option. The dock preferences also has no function to do this. In my older Imac, the dock icons are alway at the bottom, don't have to make them appear. Thanks.

This is happening for me too. Restarting does fix it, but it tends to come back after a day or two. It usually starts off with just one icon, but eventually it strikes most of them. Only one of the two shadows remain - the one that goes up against the desktop. The one that appears against the dock is clipped away, you can usually see the top four or five pixels of it if the entire icon disappears, but it's mostly gone. Some apps only lose part of their icon - for example, some icons tend to show a small sliver about halfway down. I'm guessing this is probably some weird clipping bug, or maybe it's just the bitmap cache getting partially erased.
Also, as long as I'm talking about the dock, why do both shadows bounce with the icons? Shouldn't the shadow that rests on the dock logically stay there?

Mail Dock icon "new mail" count wrong

The Mail icon in my dock shows 11 new mails. I open Mail and there is no new mail. The icon then shows none, then a bit later it shows 11 again. If I get a real new mail it will show 12 new mails. The actual number of new mail adds to the phantom 11.
What is going on here?

I'd get EasyFind...
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/11076
Here's a direct download link to EasyFind 4.0 which runs in 10.3.9 & up...
http://www.devon-technologies.com/files/legacy/macosx1039/EasyFind.dmg.zip
From this page,
http://www.devon-technologies.com/support/faqs.php?p=default&cat=19
Freeware applications:
* EasyFind 4.0
* PhotoStickies 5.6
* ThumbsUp 4.3
* XMenu 1.8
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/8707
Use it to search your whole drive for case insensitive & show invisibles...
.emlx
(dot ee em el ex)
Sort by Date & see if we can find these emails next time the count goes up.

Dock icons disappearing

Recently my icons in the dock have begun removing themselves. I can add something such as firefox to my dock, and within 5-10 seconds it removes itself. I have been able to reproduce this with a number of different apps. I've tried removing my com.apple.dock plist and db files, which rebuilds the dock, but as soon as I add any non-standard apps to the dock, they remove themselves within 5-10 seconds.
I do sync my dock items via mobile me, but I've tried turning the sync service off but it still happens. The odd part of this is the apps that remove themselves are all of the apps that were previously sync'd via mobile me. The problem only affects the current user (I created another user to test). I've also run software update and reinstalled the optional packages from my os x dvd.
The other piece of this story is that I attempted to run a dock duplication program, which allowed me to create separate docks. I don't know if it is related but the problem did occur shortly after I installed this app. I have since removed it, but I'm still encountering these issues.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

I'm not really sure what else it could be, I'd consider turning off the option to 'sync dock items' and see what happens. You may want to disable other mobile me 'sync services' too, incase they are the fault that cancels the sync.
Run a sync, restart and try again.
Resetting the data should tidy up the mess on the server, perhaps Apple is having difficulties, this page http://www.apple.com/uk/support/mobileme/ should list server problems for mobile me in your area.
Does it still happen when you are disconnected from the internet?
I think you could contact Apple, especially if you have Applecare, or start a process of elimination…
Make a clone backup of your mac, make sure it boots & works.
Make a new user account & try setting up syncing, perhaps one 'good sync' may fix the cloud? Check back in the original account. If it works in one but not the other you know it is somewhere in you account, probably in your home Library.
Now it gets icky … start by looking in (~/ means home) ~/Library/Preferences for filenames containing dock, sync, mobileme etc and delete them in you main account. Restart & re-add the settings for you mobile me account and see what happens.
Look in ~/Library/ByHost/ too it stores the preferences that are specific to you mac, there seems to be a com.apple.dock.syncclient.RanD0MStr1ng.plist file, that may be a good one to start with, along with the dotmac… files inside ByHost.
You could also trash the local sync services DB (~/Library/Application Support/SyncServices) It will wipe out all sync history I believe. Restart & try again.
Keep a list of what gets dumped using a pen & paper
Once you have 'hacked and slashed' it back to life you need to start moving items back from the backup copy to restore things you think are needed and in good order.
I'm not going to lie to you, the hack and slash is risky and time consuming, but I don't know enough about the guts of mobile me to resolve any other way. Asking Apple is safest
PS Address book and iCal have a backup feature in the file menu (one calls it export) use it just in case.
Message was edited by: Drew Reece - corrected path to sync services

Mail Dock icon only shows when Inbox has new mail, not other folders.

Hi
I've got Rules set up for Mail to move new mail to various folders on receipt, depending on the nature of the emails.
However the Mail icon in the Dock only indicates when new messages are in the Inbox, not other new emails which might be in other folders waiting to be read.
Is there some way to fix this so that it notifies me of all new emails?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Richard

Are you running leopard?
Under preferences on my mail (version 3.1.1 i think) then the 'general' tab there is an option "dock unread count" which you can set to inbox/none or all mailboxes.
I don't remember this being an option under Tiger but it may be worth looking for if you're not on Leopard.
Hope this helps

My mail dock icon disappears in seconds.

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