You may or may not have seen this bug, but doing a Google search turned up a lot of fellow sufferers.

The problem is when you launch an app, it doesn't appear in Dock.

The short term solution is to launch the terminal and type in "killall Dock".

Unfortunately, I have to do this every time I restart. Last night, I left the Mac Mini running overnight. Just woke it from sleep and the Finder had crashed and sure enough, no app that is launched shows up.

This is the freaking Finder. The heart and soul of the Mac and Apple screws it up royally.

And don't get me started on the bizarre implementation of Save As.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/08/2012 04:12PM by Grumpyguy.

Do a Safe boot then a normal reboot.

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Mr. Curmudgeon, on Mountain Lion.

In the next Mac OS you'll need terminal to do anything.

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modelamac
Do a Safe boot then a normal reboot.

Then get a witch doctor to do a dance for your Mac.

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Saint Cloud, Minnesota, where the weather is wonderful even when it isn't.

I have an issue where my server drive icon sometimes doesn't show up on the desktop. It's mounted but I have to unmount it and remount to get it to show up. More of an annoyance.

Have you rebuilt the desktop?

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theres obviously something corrupt about your install. have you tried running disk utility?

if you continue to have this problem and can't fix it i'd do a fresh install.

in other words -

Its not a Mountain Lion problem.

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theres obviously something corrupt about your install. have you tried running disk utility?

if you continue to have this problem and can't fix it i'd do a fresh install.

in other words -

Its not a Mountain Lion problem.

interesting how you insist that Lion was good and now ML is also good, when all these people have problems and broke workflows, many apps became incompatible. There are reports that battery life sucks in ML. I haven't upgraded yet, I wait for all bugs to be worked out

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Do a Safe boot then a normal reboot.

Then get a witch doctor to do a dance for your Mac.

While you're at it, zap the PRAM, rebuild the desktop, and check your scsi termination.

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That's a lot of pesto.

>>interesting how you insist that Lion was good and now ML is also good, when all these people have problems and broke workflows, many apps became incompatible.

people had problems before too. the difference is

"help! i think my computer is broken!"

vs.

"help! OS X > 10.6 sucks!"

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>>interesting how you insist that Lion was good and now ML is also good, when all these people have problems and broke workflows, many apps became incompatible.

people had problems before too. the difference is

"help! i think my computer is broken!"

vs.

"help! OS X > 10.6 sucks!"

what about USB hubs? some don't work under ML.

A USB hub was the last thing in the world I expected to become inoperable with an OS update.

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Grumpyguy
You may or may not have seen this bug, but doing a Google search turned up a lot of fellow sufferers.

The problem is when you launch an app, it doesn't appear in Dock.

...This is the freaking Finder. The heart and soul of the Mac and Apple screws it up royally.

1. The Dock is not the Finder. The Finder is very screwed up in Lion and Mountain Lion, but that specific problem relates to the Dock.

2. I have noticed that several of my Apple apps needed their .plist files trashed before they'd work properly after installing Mountain Lion. Among those problem-apps was the Dock.

I suggest that you trash the ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist file and re-do your Dock icons.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/08/2012 07:49PM by Chakravartin.

>>what about USB hubs? some don't work under ML.

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>>what about USB hubs? some don't work under ML.

well done matt

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In the next Mac OS you'll need terminal to do anything.

In the next Mac OS, you won't have a Mac anymore ... just a Mac-like handheld.

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actually, I nuked the finder preferences and that seemed to fix the problem.

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Mac Mini 2.4 GHz/8GB ram/OS 10.8.X
MacBook Pro (Early 2008 model) 2.4 GHz, 2GB ram, 200GB hard drive/ Mac OS 10.8.X and XP SP3
iPhone 4S iOS 6 64GB
Location: Cincinnati

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Speedy
In the next Mac OS you'll need terminal to do anything.

... Then get a witch doctor to do a dance for your Mac.

Pretty much every post you make regarding OS X or Macs in general reflects some stupefyingly dire situation that either doesn't exist for most others or simply blows it all out of proportion.

So when's your new PC arrive? We want you happy -- really. Or at least get some more fiber in your diet.