OS X :: How To Make Alias In Dock And Treat It As Stack
May 13, 2010
10.6.3. When I make an alias on my desktop of a folder and then drag it to my dock it'll stick there but it will open like a folder. When I click it it will open Finder and then that alias. I want it to open like Stacks do, preferably in list mode with the flyout menus. Why can't I do this? I had it in Leopard but can't get it to work in SL. I checked all my settings and can't find anywhere to create a stack from an alias. Or from anything for that matter.
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Sep 20, 2009
I created an alias folder for my Applications. I put the alias on my Dock but when I click on the alias it will open Finder window. I would like it to show my applications in Stack mode. I have copied another folder and put that on Dock and it appears fine with Stack options. I have no idea why my alias of Applications opens Finder.
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Mar 6, 2008
I just got a MBA and I was removing a pdf doc that was in the the Documents stack on the Dock when it went "poof" and disappeared. I was had downloaded the pdf and moving it from the desktop to the Documents stack and then decided to put it back on the desktop. Other than moving the icon for it I did not do anything.
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Aug 22, 2014
I have just installed Mavericks, and by mistake I removed the downloads stack from my dock. I want to get it back but how.
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MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
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Jul 6, 2012
I'm a Mac newbie and wanted to know how you make a 'stack' on the icon tray at the bottom of the screen. If someone could make a short list of what to click that would be amazing!
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MacBook Pro with Retina display, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Feb 5, 2009
I have a second hard disk in my G5 that I can access by opening a finder window and clicking on my G5 in the "shared" area on the left in the sources list. However I'd simply like to make an alias to that drive on my desktop. I can't seem to do it though. I'm sure this is easy, and I did it before, but for some reason I can't seem to figure out how to do it again...
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Sep 4, 2014
Every time I try to move a file from my application folder and move it somewhere (e.g. desktop) it makes an alias of the file(or folder) rather than letting me move the file. I rebuilt permissions and all the other Voodoo.
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Mac Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4), Early 2008
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May 12, 2012
now I can't seem to create a new stack that allows the documents to actually stack on top of one another how do I get back to that stack or maybe I should say how do I create another documents stack because right now I only have one stack which is the downloads stack
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iMac, iOS 5.1.1
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Jul 23, 2008
I want to create stacks for my Applications and put them in the dock by type. Utilities, Music & Video, iLife, etc. I think what I will do is make aliases for all the applications and put them in subfolders separate from the Applications folder, so then I have these 3-6 subfolders in my dock as stacks that I can display in Grid or Fan mode. And I don't have to see all my applications in one jumbled Grid and search for them.
Yes, I know Spotlight or QuickSilver could access them differently.
My question is, when I have created this duplicate system with the aliases to the apps, how do I remove the Alias (arrow) portion of the icon so that they look just like the actual icon down in the stack (or in my subfolders, etc)?
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May 3, 2009
How to treat POSIX error when I am doing software update. I cant also use Safari.
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Jun 17, 2009
I like to keep my dock automatically hidden, but I want it to appear instantly when I hover the mouse over the bottom of the screen.
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Aug 24, 2010
How can I make my Dock multi-line? Or does anybody know the software that supports this feature?
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Mar 22, 2009
I am looking for software to edit the dock. What i really wanna do is make it transparent.
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Oct 3, 2009
I've seen lots of docks in screenshots which don't have a dock background and have the app names instead of icons. How do i do this?
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Sep 6, 2010
My iTunes log has suddenly disappeared or atleast seem invisible i.e the space for it is there, I can click in the space and the app opens but not logo can actually be seen Anyone seen or heard of this happening before ? Running snow leopard on Core2Duo 24" iMac.
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May 8, 2009
I am new to the Mac OS world as i only got a mac one week ago. I'm learning lots of new stuff everyday but can't seem to figure out how to make my applications show up at the Guest Account Dock or even at the Applications folder for that matter.
I got Microsoft Office for Mac and it works fine and all on my User account (admin) but i cant make it show up at the applications folder or at the dock so when someone borrows my laptop for some office editing they have to be logged on my account.
Is there a way to customize the applications that show up on Guest Accounts? Ps: Love my macbook air. It makes me never want to touch another PC laptop again.
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Jun 24, 2010
I recently tried to download a free trial of World of Warcraft for Macs but instead screwed up the display settings on my Macbook (version 10.6.4 OS X). I removed it from the computer when the game didn't play, it just gave a black screen, at which point I had restarted the computer to find text sizes magnified, the display setting changed so the whole screen wasn't being used, etc. I was able to change the screen display size no problem but cannot figure out how to make the icons and text in boxes such as applications in the dock, or system preferences folder smaller. Is there a way, without reinstalling the operating system, to reset these minor settings? I could live with the changes but would rather not.
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Jun 13, 2012
Just switched to Lion and the size of the dock items are too samall I have increased their size in pref but they are still very small. Also I am missing several dock items from the right side of the dividing line and yet if i mouse over the empty space the captions of the missing icons show and some times I can select the desired action by clicking on the empty space where they previously showed.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6), with lion can I open power pc
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Jan 11, 2009
Is there any way to make the mail.app notify rss feed updates through the dock icon the same way it notifies when a new mail is recieved?
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Jun 15, 2012
The issue I've been having is that Safari 5.1.7 (on Windows 7) does not treat cookies as a "Session" cookie if the expiry has not been set. The date mysteriously gets set to Jan 01 2001 .... To reproduce the issue - these are the setups I tried this on
Setup
1) Created a mockup webpage that creates two cookies
COOKIE_WITH_EXPIRY (expiration set to July 01 2013)
COOKIE_WITHOUT_EXPIRY (no expiration set)
2) Hosted this on Apache
Behaviour on Windows 7 + Safari 5.1.7
COOKIE_WITH_EXPIRY - expiration date shown as July 01 2013
COOKIE_WITHOUT_EXPIRY - expiration date shown as Jan 01 2001
Behaviour on Mac OS X 10.7.4 + Safari 5.1.7
[code]...
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Windows PC, Windows 7, Safari 5.1.7
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Mar 28, 2012
how can i make a hidden dock pop up if an application window is opened to full screen
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.1)
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Jun 9, 2009
this is probebly me being really stupid but im still getting used to my mac. I'm using Dragthing and i want to make a new dock but for some reason Dragthing is not coming up in the bar at the top and is still showing Safari even though i am 100% using Dragthing and it is click onto it. It's just the only way to add a new Dock is to go on file and new dock but i cant do that This is a screenshot i just took, I dont understand why it wont show it at the top.
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Aug 25, 2010
I accidentally removed my "Downloads" stack earlier today. I thought getting it back should be easy -- just drag and drop the folder back in next to my trash icon. But now it only appears as a folder, not a stack (i.e., when I right click on it, I only have the "Options" and "Open" links, not all the stack options). Is there something obvious I'm doing wrong here? My user and applications folders that I added to my dock as stacks are still working properly.
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Nov 23, 2008
Does anyone know how to change the look of my stack folder?
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Oct 29, 2010
Usually, I have my downloads folder (from my external NTFS drive) be a stack in the dock. In Leopard, it would usually load up after a log out, or restart, but with Snow Leopard, it just doesn't seem to load after, like I said a moment ago, logging out or restarting. I have to manually drag it back down every time.
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Nov 17, 2010
When I'm in finder or on my desktop I'm able to hover above an MP3 and it brings up the option to play it without opening itunes or anything. However when I'm in the documents folder in the stack at the bottom next to the dock and I hover above an MP3 it doesn't give me that option. You have to actually click it to open it in itunes or another program to listen. Is there a setting for this? Is it possible to have it just play there the same way as if it was on the desktop or in a finder folder?
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Dec 19, 2010
How can i place icons or colors in a stack folder of my creation?
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Feb 17, 2010
Does anyone happen to know offhand how the icons that make up the Application stack get rebuilt? I've noticed that when I install new applications or update old ones, I get the following sort of "not found" icon. They generally go away quickly, other times they hang around for days. So I'm assuming there's an automated process that generates them... I'd like to kick it off manually if possible.
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Mar 23, 2010
I have a few items in my downloads stack, but 3 of them that don't exist in the folder anymore are just sitting there. I can try and move em out but i get the "circle with a slash" thing. And if i drag them to the trash, nothing happens. If i click on them to open it says "application cannot be found"
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Apr 16, 2010
I accidentally deleted my "downloads" stack, so I dragged the "downloads" folder from my home directory into the dock. Lo and behold, the stack came back...but not the way I remembered it. Everything was "backwards" if I tried to sort by "date added". Normally, the most recent downloads are at the bottom; however, now it is backwards. I didn't lose any files, but it is very annoying! I Googled this issue and it seemed like trashing the dock plist would solve the problem. I did that, logged out, and logged back in, and it sure did reset all of the dock settings to their defaults - everything, of course, EXCEPT for the downloads stack! It did more harm than good - all of my icons are out of place now, and yet I am still having the same old "backwards" issue with the downloads stack. Does anyone know where this problem actually lies?
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