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Download icon missing on mac dock6/13/2023 ![]() Many Mac fans prefer to hide and show the Dock at will by pressing the hide/show keystroke, Option-⌘-D. In practice, however, you may find that the extra half-second the Dock takes to appear and disappear makes this feature slightly less appealing. On paper, an auto-hiding Dock is ideal it’s there only when you summon it. (Individual Dock icons may occasionally shoot upward into desktop territory when a program needs your attention-cute, very cute-but otherwise, the Dock lies low until you call for it.) When you move the cursor back to the middle of the screen, the Dock slithers away once again. When the Dock is hidden, it doesn’t slide into view until you move the cursor to the Dock’s edge of the screen. (Or, if it’s a slow day at work, choose →System Preferences→Dock, and turn on “Automatically hide and show the Dock.”) To turn on the Dock’s auto-hiding feature, press Option-⌘-D. ![]() It’s handy to know where to find your downloads-and nice not to have them all cluttering your desktop. Unless you intervene, they’re sorted by the date you downloaded them. The Downloads folder collects all kinds of online arrivals: files you download from the web using Safari, files you receive in a Messages file-transfer session, file attachments you get via Mail, files sent to you using AirDrop ( Chapter 12), and so on. But you may well do most of your interacting with them on the Dock.) (Both of these folders are physically inside your Home folder. When you install OS X, you get a couple of starter Dock folders, just to get you psyched. From the shortcut menu, in the “Display as” section, choose either Folder (which looks like a folder forever) or Stack (which changes to reflect its contents.) ![]() Right-click (or two-finger click) the Dock folder. You can’t get to know a folder by its icon.įortunately, this problem is easy to fix. Your Downloads folder might look like an Excel spreadsheet icon today, a PDF icon tonight, and a photo tomorrow-but never a folder. When you add a folder or disk icon to the Dock, you might notice something disorienting: Its icon keeps changing to resemble whatever you most recently put into it. Ever-Changing Folder-Icon Syndrome (ECFIS).
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