[P1] Disappeared Dock Icons

[Gary Adams]

Kim:
I neglected to say that I've got a 30 gb hard drive internally--running 
10.2.8 from an external 60gb drive with plenty of space, and have 1 gb 
RAM. I appreciate the help, but I don't think that's the problem.

Gary
On Saturday, November 8, 2003, at 04:34 PM, Kim Gammelgaard wrote:

> If you are on a Pismo, your Harddisk may not be very large, and 
> perhaps you
> ran out of memory on the harddisk. Virtual Memory of OSX prior to 10.3 
> took
> chunks 80 MB in size out of your harddisk, and it didn't update the 
> figure
> in the finder properly. The only way I know to make the finder give a 
> fair
> number is to delete something. I have roughly 1 GB left on my main 
> partition
> for swap space, and it is not a rare event that I almost run out of 
> space. I
> have 320 MB RAM for that matter. Copy and past the following lines in 
> your
> Terminal to see how much space the virtual memory uses and how much is 
> left:
>
> cd /var/vm
> ls -l
> df -k .
>
> I get the following right now in Panther:
>
> [Kims-iBook:/var/vm] kgani% cd /var/vm
> [Kims-iBook:/var/vm] kgani% ls -l
> total 524288
> drwx--x--x  8 root  wheel        272 30 Oct 17:45 app_profile
> -rw------T  1 root  wheel   67108864  8 Nov 14:02 swapfile0
> -rw------T  1 root  wheel   67108864  8 Nov 15:05 swapfile1
> -rw------T  1 root  wheel  134217728  8 Nov 16:02 swapfile2
> [Kims-iBook:/var/vm] kgani% df -k .
> Filesystem   1K-blocks    Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/disk0s9   4455292 3575252 835488    81%    /
> [Kims-iBook:/var/vm] kgani%
>
> This means that I have used about 256 MB of Virtual memory ( The 
> 524288 are
> 512 byte blocks, so you have to divide by two to get KB and divide by 
> 1024
> to get MB) and have 816 MB left on the partition. I try to follow those
> numbers closely if I get strange error messages, as low memory 
> situations
> can make your Mac act up very strange indeed.
>
> If you have panther use this instead:
>
> cd /var/vm
> ls -lh
> df -h .
>
>
> The h means: Human readable, and gives this answer instead:
>
> [Kims-iBook:/var/vm] kgani% ls -lh
> total 524288
> drwx--x--x  8 root  wheel       272B 30 Oct 17:45 app_profile
> -rw------T  1 root  wheel        64M  8 Nov 14:02 swapfile0
> -rw------T  1 root  wheel        64M  8 Nov 15:05 swapfile1
> -rw------T  1 root  wheel       128M  8 Nov 16:02 swapfile2
> df -kh .[Kims-iBook:/var/vm] kgani% df -h .
> Filesystem     Size   Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/disk0s9   4.2G   3.4G   816M    81%    /
> [Kims-iBook:/var/vm] kgani%
>
> I think that is a cool new feature :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Kim
>
> On 08/11/03 20:53, "Gary Adams" <gdadams1 at cox.net> wrote:
>
>> This morning, I fired up the Pismo in 10.2.8 and the first thing I
>> noticed was the dock icons were huge instead of small. I ended up
>> restarting after Mail hung and then realized that only the OS X icons
>> (Mail, iChat, etc.) were in the dock.
>>
>> I booted from another drive and ran Disk Utility which found some
>> allocation errors. Restarted. Still no other icons. Googled and found 
>> a
>> suggestion to delete the Finder .plist in the terminal. That didn't 
>> fix
>> it either. Found another suggestion to fix the permissions. Anybody
>> have a clue?
>>
>> (I've since added the icons again, but it was a pain.)
>>
>> Gary
>
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