Help! I have 222 contacts in my dock!

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greggwsmithgreggwsmith
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in Mac Software edited January 2014
Ok I am very new to Mac's. I had a folder that contained a bunch of contacts. I was playing around and tried to drag them all to the trash. Unfortunately I dropped them into my dock and missed the trash. Now I have 222 contacts in the dock and I am looking for a quick way to delete them? If I have to delete each one I am going to scream. Any suggestions?

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  • Reply 1 of 16
    greggwsmithgreggwsmith Posts: 523member
    nevermind I deleted them.
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  • Reply 2 of 16
    gargoylegargoyle Posts: 660member
    future tip, ?-draging icons to the dock stops the other icons scooting out the way!
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  • Reply 3 of 16
    cakecake Posts: 1,010member
    ? <--- what the heck is that?
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  • Reply 4 of 16
    buonrottobuonrotto Posts: 6,368member
    That was supposed to be the "place of interest" symbol for the command key.
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  • Reply 5 of 16
    bartobarto Posts: 2,246member
    If you didn't want to take the long way, you could have deleted com.apple.dock.plist in your preferences folder.
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  • Reply 6 of 16
    bygimis turug viiibygimis turug viii Posts: 66member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Barto

    If you didn't want to take the long way, you could have deleted com.apple.dock.plist in your preferences folder.



    When I did this with 60 odd pictures I edited the plist file and removed the extra stuff from the dock. That way I didn't loose my existing doc stuff.
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  • Reply 7 of 16
    jlljll Posts: 2,713member
    And a tip for another time you want to delete many items (or just one):



    Cmd-Delete
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  • Reply 8 of 16
    placeboplacebo Posts: 5,767member
    Or put the 'send to trash' button in your Finder toolbar.
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  • Reply 9 of 16
    lazzyass86lazzyass86 Posts: 33member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Placebo

    Or put the 'send to trash' button in your Finder toolbar.



    How do you do that?
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  • Reply 10 of 16
    nx7oenx7oe Posts: 198member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Lazzyass86

    How do you do that?



    Hi
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  • Reply 11 of 16
    torifiletorifile Posts: 4,024member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Lazzyass86

    How do you do that?



    You have to customize your toolbar, through the "view" menu in the Finder. Add the delete button and you're set.
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  • Reply 12 of 16
    edinla43edinla43 Posts: 43member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by torifile

    You have to customize your toolbar, through the "view" menu in the Finder. Add the delete button and you're set.







    When I go to my View menu in the Finder, the Customize Toolbar is greyed out. All I have available is Clean Up , Arrange, and Show View Options
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  • Reply 13 of 16
    chrisgchrisg Posts: 239member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by EdinLA43

    When I go to my View menu in the Finder, the Customize Toolbar is greyed out. All I have available is Clean Up , Arrange, and Show View Options



    Make sure you have a finder window active not the desktop.
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  • Reply 14 of 16
    ryaxnbryaxnb Posts: 583member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Lazzyass86

    How do you do that? (Put Send to Trash on toolbar)



    It doesn't work for dock icons, but it's easy:

    1. Open Finder window (File menu -> New Finder Window)

    2. Choose View Menu -> Customize toolbar...

    3. Drag 'Delete' to the toolbar

    4. Click 'Done'.

    5. Close window (command+W)

    Alternate route: Download 'Trash X' (check VersionTracker) and drag that to the toolbar.
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  • Reply 15 of 16
    edinla43edinla43 Posts: 43member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by ChrisG

    Make sure you have a finder window active not the desktop.





    Ahh. That did the trick, but now I can't find the Trash to put in the toolbar.
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  • Reply 16 of 16
    edinla43edinla43 Posts: 43member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by ryaxnb

    It doesn't work for dock icons, but it's easy:

    1. Open Finder window (File menu -> New Finder Window)

    2. Choose View Menu -> Customize toolbar...

    3. Drag 'Delete' to the toolbar

    4. Click 'Done'.

    5. Close window (command+W)

    Alternate route: Download 'Trash X' (check VersionTracker) and drag that to the toolbar.



    Thanks ryaxnb, that worked perfectly.
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