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Fix Incorrect Mac Dock Icon Badge Count
Fairly often, my Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion “Messages” app shows the wrong number of unread messages.
Sometimes I can make the badge update after double-clicking every contact in my buddy list. With a big list, that is not a practical solution.
Instead, I’ve found that these steps seem to work:
- Quit the problem app
- Open Applications/Utilities/Terminal and run the following command:
killall Dock - Launch the problem app
This entry was posted in mac and tagged badge, count, dock, fix, ichat, mac, messages, number, wrong.
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Disappearing Dock Icons
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
This entry was posted in mac and tagged dock, icon, missing.