worked PERFECTLY. THANK YOU! My app icons were not showing up in the dock when the apps were open. No idea why, but this restored them all. Many thanks again.

Yes! The KILLALL command to kill the dock worked for me too. I had the same problem, and I am posting here hoping it helps others as well.
Some of my application icons wouldn't show as active anymore when an app was running. Skype and Mac Mail wouldn't show notification of incoming messages. The Dock restart solved the problems, everything works fine again! Took me a few search strings to even figure out what I am trying to fix.

Keywords: Mac Mail Skype Application Icon Icons Dock not working not active anymore 10.7.5.

When I use "killall -KILL Finder" i get "No matching processes belonging to you were found"
And do not get Finder back in use.
Short of powering off/on my iMac what can I do?

Help to all

thank you

Thanks a lot...

worked PERFECTLY. THANK YOU! My app icons were not showing up in the dock when the apps were open. No idea why, but this restored them all. Many thanks again.

Cheers

That really helps! Thanks

It is truly a nice and helpful piece of info. I am happy that you shared this useful information with us. Please stay us up to date like this. Thank you for sharing.

For those not comfortable using the Terminal, you can use Activity Monitor, find the process and Quit it.

Should have the same result

I would like to say out here that they fired, in a cowardly fashion might I add, our local sales rep. A man who went through a lot for Invitrogen and a good rep. Can't believe it. I certainly will be looking at other media and enzyme vendors. How can a manager can do this ? Adizero

I would like to say out here that they fired, in a cowardly fashion might I add, our local sales rep. A man who went through a lot for Invitrogen and a good rep. Can't believe it. I certainly will be looking at other media and enzyme vendors. How can a manager can do this ? Adizero

Thanks! :)

USING THE killall -KILL Dock COMMAND BUT STILLL NO WORKIE - THERE IS NO DOCK PROCESS RUNNING. IT HAS DISAPPEARED. ANY THOUGHTS ON HOW TO REINSTATE/REINSTALL THE DOCK PROCESS?

tHANKS
cHARLIE

thanks!! :D .. haha cool captcha by the way..

big thanks!

I'm using -KILL on purpose, as killall will will by default send the TERM, not the KILL signal.

Read the man page, it's all in there. :-)

NAME
     killall -- kill processes by name

SYNOPSIS
     killall [-delmsvz] [-help] [-u user] [-t tty] [-c procname] [-SIGNAL] [procname ...]

DESCRIPTION
     The killall utility kills processes selected by name, as opposed to the selection by pid as done
     by kill(1).  By default, it will send a TERM signal to all processes with a real UID identical to
     the caller of killall that match the name procname.  The super-user is allowed to kill any
     process.

     The options are as follows:

           -d | -v     Be more verbose about what will be done.  For a single -d option, a list of the
                       processes that will be sent the signal will be printed, or a message indicating
                       that no matching processes have been found.

           -e          Use the effective user ID instead of the (default) real user ID for matching
                       processes specified with the -u option.

           -help       Give a help on the command usage and exit.

           -l          List the names of the available signals and exit, like in kill(1).

           -m          Match the argument procname as a (case sensitive) regular expression against
                       the names of processes found.  CAUTION!  This is dangerous, a single dot will
                       match any process running under the real UID of the caller.

           -s          Show only what would be done, but do not send any signal.

           -SIGNAL     Send a different signal instead of the default TERM.  The signal may be speci-
                       fied either as a name (with or without a leading SIG), or numerically.

           -u user     Limit potentially matching processes to those belonging to the specified user.

           -t tty      Limit potentially matching processes to those running on the specified tty.

           -c procname
                       When used with the -u or -t flags, limit potentially matching processes to
                       those matching the specified procname.

           -z          Do not skip zombies.  This should not have any effect except to print a few
                       error messages if there are zombie processes that match the specified pattern.

he's using killall, not kill.

thus, no need for -KILL.

*you* read the man page; or even better, hop into bash and try it out.

Awesome. Thanks for the list.

And yes, you *do* need the -KILL option. Or, you could also give a -9 like I do. :-) See the man page.

you don't need the -KILL parameter on any of those commands

you are not deleting anything, you're only force quitting the dock and restarting it.

my dock is gone and i want to try this but i would like to know if all of my stuff is safe. like my pictures, videos, documents. etc

Thanks, my dock was lost and this worked.

I use "killall -KILL Finder" now to reset the finder when I can't rename files or open a new finder page.