I occasionally see one or two icons in my Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard dock show up as completely transparent. I can still click in that area to launch the application but that slot in the dock shows up empty.
I found a solution that brings the icons back (this could just be a temporary fix):
- Right-click the icon and choose Options – Show In Finder so that you can easily locate it in a future step.
- Drag the transparent icon away from the dock so that it turns into a puff of smoke.
- Open Applications – Utilities – Terminal then type “killall Dock” to restart the Dock
- From the window opened in step 1, drag the icon back into the dock where it was before
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July 13, 2011 at 11:34 pm
jeroldfriedman
I was able to restore the dock icon just with the first step – right-click and Show in Finder. If they disappear again, I’ll do steps 2-4.