[Ti] Question marks on the Dock

[Ronald Woodland]

They are broken links to software applications that don't exist any 
more after the installation of 10.3.  Newer versions or completely new 
applications have taken the place of the old ones used in 10.2 or 
earlier.  Click on them and just drag them off the dock, not to the 
trash.  When you release the mouse button, they dissolve in a 
gratifying "poof" of graphic animation.  Only Apple would include 
something that cool just to toast dock aliases.  Then you will want to 
open the applications folder in 10.3 and drag any new apps to the dock 
as replacements.  Remember, drag the application's icon to the dock not 
the entire application folder.  I've seen many novice OS X users make 
that mistake.

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Ronald Woodland, Assistant Professor                     435.652.7857
Director of Visual Technologies Program
Dixie State College - St. George, Utah  84770

woodland at dixie.edu                                   cit.dixie.edu/vt
woodland at infowest.com
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On Jan 21, 2004, at 1:58 PM, Ted Greer wrote:

> After I installed 10.3 a couple of the icons on the dock changed to 
> big translucent question marks that don't do anything and can't be 
> dragged to the trash.
> Any ideas?
> Thanks