All applications are on the only hard drive on this computer. My home folder has not moved. One application was moved slightly (nested in a folder on the desktop instead of on the desktop), but not the other three. Two of them came back after opening them and closing them (I knew what they were because running the mouse over still flashed their names), but the other one had to be removed and replaced. Very odd! Thanks for the tip! Valerie On 2/13/05 6:17 PM, "bofus?" <bofus at mindspring.com> wrote: > this happens to me to folder icons on the dock from an > internal drive other than the boot one when I repair permissions and > when I click on them they change from question marks back to their > original icons and then they work fine.