I know I can’t be the only one who this constantly happens to, right?
Now, this problem has only occurred since I have started to use Mac OS X Snow Leopard. The problem? My dock randomly freezes when I right click icons in it. As you can see in the picture, it just gets stuck, and I can’t do anything.
I try to hover over the dock and select something else, that will not work. I try to switch applications, nope. That won’t work either. I can’t click anything, except the application I had active when the dock froze.
After about a minute and a half, the dock will randomly unfreeze itself, and everything will go back to normal. Does this happen all the time? No. It is just every once in awhile, maybe once a day. But when it happens, it is VERY annoying.
Does this happen to you? Oh look at that, a comment section! How convenient! Let me know below.
I am really tired of the childish “remove .plist” file hints. We all know that doesn’t work. There’s only crappy superficial answers by users on the Apple site – I am shocked no coder has looked into this. I am having this on multiple hardware setups – and plist and db file removal has no influence.
I have not seen one intelligent answer out there on how to fix this , and apple is silent.
Dock freeze means productivity freeze, since it is the most used interface in the system.
Come on guys – let’ s move forward here – this is not a cosmetic minor glitch. THis is big.
Apple – I need you to step up to the plate and comment on this publicly.
Thanks…bows….:)
shit im having the same problem on my 27″ ,how do i fix this?. its tolerable the first few weeks i got my imac, but now its just plain annoying! removing removing the com.apple.dock.plist file from ~/Library/Preferences doesnt fix this.
Hi,
I was still able to start Active Monitor with QuickSilver and with Active Monitor I was able to quit the process “Dock” which will restart the “Dock” process. After that the dock is working fine again.
I hope this helps!
Great information,I have Digged this site to my list for future and will keep a eye on your other posts.
Yeap i have it too and found no solution so far…
Hm! I found this page Googling for a solution to this very problem. Yep, I have this problem too.
try backing up all your files and doing an erase and install
YES! I have the same problem, and have no idea how to fix it ;-;
I used to have that problem all the time and it was really annoying. But after the last ‘Performance Update’ it hasn’t seemed to come back.
I haven’t had that issue before in snow leopard.
I guess it MAY just be me then! HAHA.
Try removing the com.apple.dock.plist file from ~/Library/Preferences