Question Mark on docking bar

There is a big question mark on my docking bar and when I hover the arrow over it says Garageband. How would I delete this since I deleted the garageband application off my computer.

Thanks! I'm a new mac user and I am still trying to figure out everything. Thanks again.

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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 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.

Questions on my dock bar

On several of my program icons like microsoft powerpoint and entourage there is a question mark that appears when I click on it, I can't do anything with the application because that is all that happens. It also happens on a open file from micosoft project gallery sitting on my dock (the file is stuck open my dock since the question mark on the icon first appeared) It is the first one I noticed. Do you know what to do to get my icons back to normal?

Also I lost two programs from my dock bar and spoke to you guys but still was unable to find them but I found a file OFfice recovery 2008 which I thought might help me (the lost programs were microsoft 2008 word and microsoft 2008 excel) but the fille office recovery 2008 somehow got sent to the trash and now I don't know how to get it out and see what it is. Do you know if it might be able to help me and also if you could direct me on how to get it out of the trash that would be great. I also have another application downloaded form the internet that I can't shut on my dock bar. Help would be great. Thank you.

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.
Hope this helps,
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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!
Has anyone got any ideas?
Many thanks,
David Lee

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.
Carolyn

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.

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

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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How do I question mark in dock

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
/Library/Caches/com.apple.dock.iconcache.501
• log out/in.This will reset the Dock to its default values, so you will have to reset the preferences for the dock.
george

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.
Any help is appreciated.

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.
You should never clear system caches unless told to as part of troubleshooting on a backed up system.

Question marks on some applications in dock

Hi, when i opened my macbook today, i noticed that when i clicked on mail, there was ablack question mark over it, then i tried to open photo booth and aperture but the same thing happened, safari, itunes, pages and some other apps are working but some aren't. i verified and repaired disk permissions and searched for the broken apps in the finder but they're not there. please help...

Question marks on Dock icons indicates a hosed Launch Services database. Delete the current icons and replace them with ones from the apps. Launch the Terminal app in /Applications/Utilities/, copy & paste this one-liner into the window that pops up, hit the return key, quit Terminal, and restart:
*/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchS ervices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user*

Repeatedly getting question marks on my dock apps...

I'm not moving or deleting anything, but a bunch of my dock's apps keep getting question marks on 'em and I have to go find the app and make a new shortcut. This happens on both our MacBook (OS 10.5.6) and our old G4 running OS 10.4.11. Each computer just has one user account set up.
This is slowly driving us crazy. Help!!?? I've searched and search on the support pages and can't find anything on this except stuff that says I must have deleted the apps, etc.
Thanks in advance for any ideas.

Howdy Ferd II,
Nope, not using anything to modify dock...and not using any non-apple maintenance or utilities. Not aware of any cache cleaning utilities either. I'm not savvy enough to have set up any of that.
The apps are usually MS Office apps and Adobe apps (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat). My Quicken app has done it too. Oh, and my Canon ImageBrowser. Those are all the apps I use the most, so pretty much everything.
Except, iTunes has never done it...I use that a lot. And Safari....Can't remember if Safari has ever done it.
All of the above is referring to the laptop, but the desktop computer is pretty bare bones, too. No mods other than basic system with a few apps installed. We mostly use Safari, an older Photoshop, and MS office on it. Same kind of behavior. Never with iTunes, though!
When I got the laptop a year ago, I thought I'd not have this issue that I'd been dealing with on the desktop machine. Then when it started happening on the laptop, I figured there'd be other people chiming in that this happens to THEM too, but so far none of that......! So it is a puzzlement.
E.

Had an Excel file in the dock. When I restarted computer a question mark appeared in the dock. I can't find the file. Where can I find what was in the dock on my Time Capsule

I had an Excel file icon in my Dock on the compter. When I restarted my computer a Question mark appeared where the file icon was located in the dock. I need to find that file. I can't locate it either on my computer or on the Time Capsule . Anyone have any thoughts where the actual file may be located?

Sorry, you lost me.
If the file is on your computer, then you will find it if you open Excel, click the File menu, and click Open Recent.
If you deleted the file before Time Machine saved it, it is gone.
If the file was on your computer long enough for Time Machine to save it, it will be in your Time Machine backups.
Open up Time Machine, wait a few minutes for it to load, and click on All Files on the left side of the window.
Then scan to select a purple bar over on the right hand side of the window to select a recent date when you know that the document was on your Mac.
If the document was saved, then you will see it in there somewhere. Click on the file to highlight, then click Restore to bring it back to the present time.

Not able to get rid of a Question mark in the Dock

A friend got stuck with a Question Mark in the Dock of his 4 year old iMac that was linked to an app not compatible anymore with his latest 10.8.2 version ( guess it was a Power PC app, before Mountain Lion, he was still on Leopard ). He apparently deleted the app and some dependencies manually ( instead of using App Cleaner & Co. ) and now whenever he is hovering over that Question Mark, even before being even able to pull it out from the Dock, the screen flashes up white and the Finder resets.
Is there a way to access the Dock through an element of his user library to get rid of that Mark, or even through a Terminal command ( not that I like to delve in there, but Terminal commands have helped me personally quite often ) ?
Does the Dock have a dedicated place in the Library's User Folder ? Couldn't find anything on my own Mac.
Thanks for any clue ....

Right clicking on it is not even an option, just hovering over it seems to induce a "nuclear" reset of the whole desktop and graphic card on the iMac.
Have meanwhile found a possible solution by erasing the dock preference file in the user/library/preferences folder to reset the dock to it's default state. Will try this out through a Skype conversation with that Buddy.
Was seen here :
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16447109#16447109
Thank you for stepping in. Good to know that people are still willing to help in this community.
Greetz to the UK from France

Question Mark on docking bar

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