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Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock

From John Hill <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk>
Newsgroups uk.comp.sys.mac
Subject Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock
Date 2025-08-24 08:22 +0000
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On 24 Aug 2025 at 09:04:32 BST, "Andy H" <thewildrover@icloud.com> wrote:

> John Hill <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> On 23 Aug 2025 at 18:16:15 BST, ""David B."" <BD@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 23/08/2025 17:41, John Hill wrote:
>>>> On 23 Aug 2025 at 11:56:46 BST, "Alan B" <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On 2025-08-23, Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>> On 2025-08-23, Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>>> On 23 Aug 2025 at 09:57:55 BST, "John Hill" <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> The Applications icon in my Dock has been overlaid by a white square
>>>>>>>> containing a red octagon bearing a white hand.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> It looks like some kind of warning. But what does it signify?
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> What action do I need to take to clear it? I'd like it gone - it is unsightly,
>>>>>>>> apart from anything else.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Is it showing the first app icon from your /Applications folder?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> What you're describing looks like the AdBlock for Safari icon as shown
>>>>>> in the App Store. Have you recently installed it?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Further investigation ...
>>>>> 
>>>>> If it is that, there is a setting to toggle 'Show Dock Icon' on or off.
>>>> 
>>>> I have asked AdBlock Support for help.
>>> 
>>> Hello again, Very Old John!  🙂
>>> 
>>> As you know, I'm not as clever as many of the other's reading here, but
>>> I'd like to make a suggestion.
>>> 
>>> Simply remove the Applications Icon from the Dock, then you'll not be
>>> ably to see the ugly icon currently sitting atop of it!
>>> 
>>> 
>>> A 'right click' on the Icon should provide you with options.
>>> 
>>> Good luck!
>>> 
>>> PS. Can you post an image of what your "Applications App" looks like?
>>> I don't appear to have one in my macOS Ventura 13.7.8
>> 
>> https://share.icloud.com/photos/0634f--fWm6Mmc6eA-1DFy87g
>> 
>> The screenshot.It shows the Documents folder and the Downloads folder icons in
>> their usual guise, the obscenely altered Applications folder, a parked Arc
>> page and the Bin.
>> 
>> BTW I am running Sequoia 15.6.1 (24G90)
>> 
>> Alan, toggling the Show in Dock shows or removes a completely separate icon in
>> the Dock.. It cannot be removed by normal methods, only by the toggle.
>> 
>> Returning to the offending icon, if I rename the app as X AdBock. the overlay
>> disappears. I see only the normal Applications icon. I have no idea if it
>> would work if renames.
>> 
>> I use Safari only rarely; Arc is my default browser. It runs AdBlock Plus
>> (which I believe to be a completely different blocker) without all this
>> nonsense. Maybe that is the answer?
>> 
>> Old John.
>> 
> 
> I’ve found it now. You need to change the display option from Stack to
> Folder.

Bingo! I have done so and the icon has gone.

Thank you.

Old John..
-- 
God made the integers. All else is the work of man.

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Mysterious icon change in the Dock John Hill <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> - 2025-08-23 08:57 +0000
  Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-08-23 09:12 +0000
    Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-08-23 09:39 +0000
      Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-08-23 10:56 +0000
        Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock John Hill <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> - 2025-08-23 16:07 +0000
          Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock Andy H <thewildrover@icloud.com> - 2025-08-24 07:44 +0000
            Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-08-24 07:49 +0000
            Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock John Hill <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> - 2025-08-24 08:17 +0000
              Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock Bruce <07.013@scorecrow.com> - 2025-08-25 12:16 +0100
                Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock Andy H <thewildrover@icloud.com> - 2025-08-25 13:28 +0000
                Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2025-08-25 17:51 +0200
                Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock John Hill <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> - 2025-08-26 07:30 +0000
                Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-08-26 07:56 +0000
                Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock "David B." <DavidB.@nomail.afraid.org> - 2025-08-26 15:30 +0100
        Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock John Hill <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> - 2025-08-23 16:41 +0000
          Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid (Alan B) - 2025-08-23 18:13 +0100
          Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock "David B." <BD@hotmail.co.uk> - 2025-08-23 18:16 +0100
            Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock John Hill <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> - 2025-08-24 07:47 +0000
              Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock Andy H <thewildrover@icloud.com> - 2025-08-24 08:04 +0000
                Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock John Hill <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> - 2025-08-24 08:22 +0000
                Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock Andy H <thewildrover@icloud.com> - 2025-08-24 10:47 +0000
              Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock John Hill <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> - 2025-08-24 08:09 +0000
                Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-08-24 08:13 +0000
              Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock "David B." <BD@hotmail.co.uk> - 2025-08-24 09:14 +0100
                Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock John Hill <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> - 2025-08-24 08:36 +0000
                Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-08-24 11:36 +0000
                Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock Mark <captain.black@gmail.com> - 2025-08-24 20:00 +0000
                Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-08-24 20:14 +0000
                Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock Mark <captain.black@gmail.com> - 2025-08-24 20:26 +0000
                Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-08-25 07:54 +0000
                Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock Mark <captain.black@gmail.com> - 2025-08-25 13:14 +0000
                Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock "David B." <BD@hotmail.co.uk> - 2025-08-24 13:55 +0100
                Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock John Hill <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> - 2025-08-24 16:21 +0000
                Re: Mysterious icon change in the Dock "David B." <BD@hotmail.co.uk> - 2025-08-25 08:19 +0100

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