Mac tip Podcast – #013 – Remove Finder from your Dock

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In this episode of Mac Tip Podcast;
Remove Finder from your Dock

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Show Notes
I love Path Finder and, but like many other Path Finder users, quickly grew annoyed by the useless Finder and Trash icons in the Dock. So, through some digging, I found out how to kill them once and for all.

Navigate to /System » Library » CoreServices, Control-click or right click on Dock.app then select Show Package Contents from the contextual menu. In the new window that opens, navigate into Resources and open DockMenus.plist in your editor.

Find the entries for finder-quit and trash. In each, change one of the commands so that the command entry is 1004 and the name entry is REMOVE_FROM_DOCK. Save your changes and restart the Dock from the Terminal “killall Dock”, and you can then choose Remove From Dock for those two items.

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