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10.5: Add a 'recent things' stack to the Dock
Authored by: diskostu on Fri, Nov 16 2007 at 11:11AM PST
I used a similar command:

defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add '{ "fan-data" = { "list-type" = 1; }; "fan-type" = "recents-tile"; }'

So I replaced "tile" by "fan". After "killall Dock", my Dock was gone, even after a clean reboot. Any idea? Any help is greatly appreciated.

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10.5: Add a 'recent things' stack to the Dock
Authored by: diskostu on Fri, Nov 16 2007 at 11:14AM PST
Ah, I figured it out by myself. In case anyone has the same problem, just type

defaults delete com.apple.dock persistent-others

and the Dock should appear again.

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10.5: Add a 'recent things' stack to the Dock
Authored by: soulbarn on Fri, Nov 16 2007 at 3:06PM PST
Ack! My dock (and cmd-tab) vanished after trying out the tip. and the solution posted (defaults delete com.apple.dock persistent-others) doesn't work! What to do?

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10.5: Add a 'recent things' stack to the Dock
Authored by: soulbarn on Fri, Nov 16 2007 at 3:33PM PST
A restart brought the dock back. But not with the recent items stack. I'm going to try again...

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10.5: Add a 'recent things' stack to the Dock
Authored by: antiorario on Sat, Nov 17 2007 at 2:46AM PST
So I replaced "tile" by "fan". After "killall Dock", my Dock was gone, even after a clean reboot. Any idea? Any help is greatly appreciated.
My suggestion would be to either reset the dock by erasing ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Dock.plist or pick an older version of it using Time Machine, then doing a killall Dock in Terminal.

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