Monday, October 20, 2008, 10:39 PM – Tips and Hints
If you look at your Dock some day and see a big question mark where an application icon is supposed to be you are probably going to wonder what it means and what to do about it.
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Hi there, I just paid for and downloaded the new Microsoft Office 365 suite from the Apple App Store (2018 MacBook Pro - OS 14.14.2). I can't 'activate' it. A pop-up from the app store states that.
Dji drone app mac. The icons resting on your Dock are alias’ that link to the location on your hard drive where the applications are actually stored. In most cases that means your Applications Folder.
- This app which is 1password also doesn't work anymore. Anybody know what has happened? I'm not sure if I should install the app again, do not want to overwrite and muck up any of my already saved data. If I go that route of re-installing wil I lose all my saved logins/data?
- If your Mac starts up to a question mark A folder with a flashing question mark means that your startup disk is no longer available or doesn't contain a working Mac operating system. Press and hold the power button on your Mac for up to 10 seconds, until your Mac turns off.
If you recall, you added something to the Dock by dragging the icon image from the location folder (Applications) to the dock and released it. That “links” the alias icon to the application itself.
When that big blue question mark suddenly shows up, that means the alias icon on your Dock can no longer find the application. It has lost it’s reason to exist and says “help, why am I here?”
You might as well pull it off the dock and release it because it no longer functions.
App store mac catalina. What to do about it depends on what caused the problem in the first place. If you discarded the application, then throwing away the question mark solves the problem. Everything is neat and tidy and you are ready to move on.
If you moved the application somewhere else, such as to a backup external drive or just to some other folder, then find that location and pull an alias icon back down to the dock and you should be set to go.
Nancy
question mark over an item in the dock means that the original item can not be found because it was either moved or deleted. first check you main Applications folder. that's where those things should be by default. if they are not there they may have been moved, do a spotlight search for them. try it from all user accounts you have on the mac as sometimes people move the apps to the desktop or a place like that. also check the Trash on all accounts. if the apps are nowhere to be found you can reinstall them from the leopard install DVD using pacifist
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you'll have to install 10.5.7 combo update afterwards to bring those apps to their latest versions.
http://www.charlessoft.com/
you'll have to install 10.5.7 combo update afterwards to bring those apps to their latest versions.
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