Mac” LeVitus is among the world’s leading authorities on the iPad, iPhone, and OS X. He’s been one of the Mac community’s most trusted gurus for more than 25 years and has written or cowritten more than 60 books. He is also a columnist for the Houston Chronicle and The Mac Observer. The Dock in OS X releases prior to Mountain Lion included icons for the Documents and Applications folders. The Dock in Mountain Lion and Yosemite does not, at least not by default, show those folders. Having those folders on the Dock is convenient, and you should consider adding them to your Dock if they aren’t already there.
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You can change a few things about the Dock to make it look and behave just the way you want it to. First, set the global preferences that apply to the Dock itself. After that, you can change some preferences that apply only to folder and disk icons in the Dock.
Global Dock preferences
To change global Dock preferences, choose Apple→Dock→Dock Preferences. The System Preferences application opens to the Dock pane.
You can also open the Dock System Preferences pane by right-clicking or Control-clicking the Dock Resizer and choosing Dock Preferences from the shortcut menu, or click the System Preferences icon on the Dock and then clicking the Dock icon in the System Preferences window.
Now you can adjust your Dock with the following preferences:
Folder and Disk Dock Icon menu preferences
If you click a folder or disk icon in the Dock, its contents are displayed in a Fan, Grid, or List menu.
If you right-click or Control-click a folder or disk icon in the Dock, its Options menu appears.
Here are the choices on the Options menu:
The Dock is a convenient way to get at oft-used icons. By default, the Dock comes stocked with icons that Apple thinks you’ll need most frequently, but you can customize it to contain any icons that you choose.
Adding Dock icons
You can customize your Dock with favorite applications, a document you update daily, or maybe a folder containing your favorite recipes. Use the Dock for anything you need quick access to.
Adding an application, file, or folder to the Dock is as easy as 1-2-3:
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As long as you follow the rule, you can add several items to either side of the divider line at the same time by selecting them all and dragging the group to that side of the Dock. You can delete only one icon at a time from the Dock, however.
Adding a URL to the Dock works slightly differently. Here’s a quick way to add a URL to the Dock:
If you open an icon that normally doesn’t appear in the Dock, and you want to keep its temporary icon in the Dock permanently, you have two ways to tell it to stick around after you quit the program:
Removing an icon from the Dock
Removing an item from the Dock is as easy as 1-2-3 but without the 3:
You can also choose Remove from Dock in the item’s Dock menu to get it out of your Dock, but this way is way more fun.
You can’t remove the icon of a program that’s currently running from the Dock by dragging it. Either wait until you quit the program or choose Remove from Dock in its Dock menu.
Also, note that by moving an icon off the Dock, you aren’t moving, deleting, or copying the item itself; you’re just removing its icon from the Dock. The item is unchanged. The icon is sort of like a library catalog card: Just because you remove the card from the card catalog doesn’t mean that the book is gone from the library.
The Dock in OS X releases prior to Mountain Lion included icons for the Documents and Applications folders. The Dock in Mountain Lion and Yosemite does not, at least not by default, show those folders. Having those folders on the Dock is convenient, and you should consider adding them to your Dock if they aren’t already there.
On the other hand, for those with Macs that once ran OS X 10.7 (Lion) or earlier versions and have since been upgraded to Yosemite, your Documents and Applications folders are still on your Yosemite Dock unless you removed them at some point.
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