Let me set the scene. You’ve come to your Mac, all ready to have some fun, maybe check your email, watch a video, you’re choice. And then suddenly, your dock freezes. You can’t click on anything in the dock and it’s causing you internal pain unmanageable by even the greatest ninjas.
You’re lost, and no one’s there to save you. However, I have the solution.
Open up your Macintosh HD (no, not literally), and basically do the following:
Macintosh HD > System > Library > CoreServices
Then click on the file named Dock (this is also the place you use to change dock image on Leopard, see this), and Tada! The Dock is back, and better then ever (not really)!
Yes, its true.
Of course your mad, no one thought that apple could sink this low but they managed. And trust me, its much worse for me.
I don’t want to say this, I don’t want to relive the pain, but of course I must. Ok, so let me tell you my story:
I was sitting at home minding my business when lo and behold, my computer guy rings me up and says: “Yeah, we got your new customized iMac and we’re gonna drop it at your place in say….10 minutes.” I thanked him and hung up the phone. I had been waiting for weeks for my iMac to come in, and when it came I was so happy I nearly relieved myself in my pants….as you do….
So anyhow, I took the 24 inch screen out of the neatly packed box (Which was lots of fun, I must say) and I plugged it into the wall and off I went.
The iMac then asked me which language I would like it to function in, of course I chose English. It then asked me the question I was looking for: Do you have a previous mac? I clicked yes and then waited the 2 hours of migration from my old to new mac. The longest 2 hours of my life, but of course I had no idea what I was in for.
4 episodes of Scrubs later and one migration completed I then moved on to register my computer. I typed in the details and then received a message saying: Failed processing and I thought to myself: well that’s odd… But swept it aside.
As I logged into my account I heard a faint humming noise…it was quietly comforting at first until it became a loud whirring noise. I thought this is either a hardware failure or software, so I ran the system off the start up disc but Oh NO!: My computer came with Tiger not Leopard! I was horrified…But soldiered on, noting to retrieve leopard online.
The computer ran off the disc fine, and still continued to whirr.
UPDATE: For all those who still want to know the answer, it was because a wire had slipped out of place and was caught in the fan. Sadly, it wasn’t fixed on the spot but was taken in to repairs and has still not come back.
This is a great example of little flaws in big companies, I say this painfully but the truth must be told.
2. Put Leopard disc into iMac, hoping to do an Upgrade installation so that I could just keep all files on the iMac on it, and continue with Leopard. However, it claims the internal hard drive cannot be installed onto, requesting that is reformatted to Mac OSX Extended (Journal), which I do, knowing that I have my back up for when this all starts working.
3. Installing fine, finishes after 1h - 2h, asks to Restart, which I do.
4. Computer starts loading up, goes through the standard white background (with Apple logo and spinning dial) loading up the computer, then the standard blue background. However, the blue background does not change, it remains like this, on-going.
There is more so keep reading if you would like to see what happened. All Updates:
UPDATE 1: I now have the original Leopard installation disk. Put it in whilst holding down C and managed to pull up the original Leopard installation window. I am currently verifying the disk as instructed.
UPDATE 2: Disk was verified as “ok” which is good. I then erased the hard drive completely. Now am installing Leopard onto the hard drive as if it was a new computer. 1 hour 9 minutes remaining. Should be done sooner though. Will keep you posted.
Let me set the scene. You’ve come to your Mac, all ready to have some fun, maybe check your email, watch a video, you’re choice. And then suddenly, your dock freezes. You can’t click on anything in the dock and it’s causing you internal pain unmanageable by even the greatest ninjas.