How To Reset The Dock In OS X To Default Factory Settings

How To Reset The Dock in OS X To Default Factory Settings. Restore the Dock to it's original state when OS X was first installed.


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In this episode, How To Reset The Dock To Default Factory Settings.

Resetting the Dock to Factory Settings, removes all apps, items, folders added and any customization done to the Dock.

Basically; factory settings, replaces any stock app icons that might have been removed or deleted, resizes the Dock and restores it to it’s original state when OS X was originally installed. As shown here.

Restoring the Dock to Factory Settings involves entering two simple one line commands in Terminal.

Onwards with the demo.

Soooooo, Let’s Get Started.

For this demo, I’ve intentionally deleted the Numbers app, in order to show what would happen if any of the stock apps like Numbers was deleted and the Dock restored to Factory Settings.

Therefore; Open Terminal and enter the following 2 one line commands:

Line 1: defaults delete com.apple.dock

Followed by Line 2, relaunch the Dock:

Line 2: killall Dock

As you will notice, after factory restore, there’s a question mark icon on the Dock.

This basically means that a stock app has been removed or deleted, which in my case, the Numbers app.

To get rid of the questionable icon, simply re-install the app again.

And that’s all there is to it, resetting the Dock to Factory Settings, couldn’t be more easy.

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