Dock icons cut in half

In article barmar-1E597B.04411901092009.TakeThisOut@nothing.attdns.com, Barry Margolin
at barmar.TakeThisOut@alum.mit.edu wrote on 9/1/09 4:41 AM:

> Something weird just started happening tonight with my Dock. Several of
> the dock icons are getting cut in half. Draw a diagonal from the
> top-left to bottom-right, and the upper right portion of the icon is
> missing. I normally hide the Dock, but it happens with it hidden or
> visible. And it doesn't matter if I have the dock at left (my normal
> location) or the bottom. The icons that this happens to seem random,
> and as I change the size of the dock it shifts around.
>
> I tried restoring my dock plist from Time Machine and restarting the
> dock, as well as logging out and back in.
>
> It's not just happening in my regular user account, it's also in a
> pristine test account.
>
> I uploaded an image of the dock from the test account:
>
> http://img268.imageshack.us/i/snapshot20090901043645.tif/


FWIW, I had an analogous problem back in the fall/winter: The backgrounds in
the labels of my dock icons would suddenly begin to fade -- initially fairly
quickly, then gradually (over days or weeks) becoming completely "washed
out." Here is a "time lapse" image sequence of what I'm talking about:

http://img412.imageshack.us/i/fadingdockiconlabels.png/

The only "solution" was to reboot. That, however, was only a temporary
solution, as the problem would begin anew.

I tried all sorts of things (repairing permissions, running DU and TechTool
Pro, etc., etc.), but nothing helped. IIRC, I then began to trash a bunch of
"clutter" (old "demo" apps and other files, all of which were of no use to
me and simply wasting space), and followed that by a combo OS update (I
don't recall if it was one of my long-overdue updates, or a repeat of a
then-recent one). After that, the problem (coincidentally?) ceased.

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In article <jollyroger-B762F0.09473001092009.DeleteThis@news.individual.net>,
Jolly Roger <jollyroger.DeleteThis@pobox.com> wrote:

> In article <barmar-1E597B.04411901092009.DeleteThis@nothing.attdns.com>,
> Barry Margolin <barmar.DeleteThis@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> > Something weird just started happening tonight with my Dock. Several of
> > the dock icons are getting cut in half. Draw a diagonal from the
> > top-left to bottom-right, and the upper right portion of the icon is
> > missing. I normally hide the Dock, but it happens with it hidden or
> > visible. And it doesn't matter if I have the dock at left (my normal
> > location) or the bottom. The icons that this happens to seem random,
> > and as I change the size of the dock it shifts around.
> >
> > I tried restoring my dock plist from Time Machine and restarting the
> > dock, as well as logging out and back in.
> >
> > It's not just happening in my regular user account, it's also in a
> > pristine test account.
> >
> > I uploaded an image of the dock from the test account:
> >
> > http://img268.imageshack.us/i/snapshot20090901043645.tif/
>
> How do those icons appear in Finder windows?

Normal.

I haven't tried rebooting yet, I'm going to give that a try.

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In article <barmar-8C1172.23290901092009.RemoveThis@news.eternal-september.org>,
Barry Margolin <barmar.RemoveThis@alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> I haven't tried rebooting yet, I'm going to give that a try.

Seems to have done the trick.

I hate mysterious stuff like this....

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Barry Margolin, barmar.RemoveThis@alum.mit.edu
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In article barmar-153101.00253502092009 DeleteThis @news.eternal-september.org, Barry
Margolin at barmar DeleteThis @alum.mit.edu wrote on 9/2/09 12:25 AM:

> In article <barmar-8C1172.23290901092009 DeleteThis @news.eternal-september.org>,
> Barry Margolin <barmar DeleteThis @alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
>> I haven't tried rebooting yet, I'm going to give that a try.
>
> Seems to have done the trick.
>
> I hate mysterious stuff like this....

For me, rebooting provided a temporary fix only; hopefully, it'll work
better for you.


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In article <C6C37943.44CB8%nicknaym@[remove_this].gmail.com>,
Nick Naym <nicknaym@[remove_this].gmail.com> wrote:

> In article barmar-153101.00253502092009.TakeThisOut@news.eternal-september.org, Barry
> Margolin at barmar.TakeThisOut@alum.mit.edu wrote on 9/2/09 12:25 AM:
>
> > In article <barmar-8C1172.23290901092009.TakeThisOut@news.eternal-september.org>,
> > Barry Margolin <barmar.TakeThisOut@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> >
> >> I haven't tried rebooting yet, I'm going to give that a try.
> >
> > Seems to have done the trick.
> >
> > I hate mysterious stuff like this....
>
> For me, rebooting provided a temporary fix only; hopefully, it'll work
> better for you.

I'll also be upgrading to SL soon. Hopefully whatever bug this was is
gone there.

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Barry Margolin, barmar.TakeThisOut@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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