I’ve just bought a stock M1 Air and I find the Scrivener 3.2.3 icon does not display in the Dock, but displays fine elsewhere on the M1 and displays everywhere on my stock 2020 Intel MBA. Has anyone seen this, or know a fix?
Thanks
Does it not display in the Dock even when you are using it?
It does not display, in use or not.
Thanks for the reply
I have a M1 Air that I bought last summer and am running macOS 12.4 and the Scrivener icon displays in the dock for me. It’s possible you’re experiencing a bug that I’m not, but it seems more likely that something else is going on. I’d start out by doing a fresh install of Scrivener in case your installation was incomplete: delete the app, delete the installer from your downloads folder, empty trash, restart your computer, then do a fresh install from the website. Do you still have issues with the icon not displaying in the dock afterward?
Find Scrivener in Applications and drag it to the Dock. (It’s not a bug.)
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If Scrivener is indeed running as stated by the OP then it is a bug. Not one that I’ve ever seen before, but who knows…
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Since I’m still on an Intel Mac and running Catalina I can nothing but guess: How did Scrivener get onto your new machine? Did you install it (recommended) or did you use the Migration Assistant?
And where is it located? In the program folder where it should be or somewhere else? And if the latter, could it be the lates OS (or the M1?) does not like that anymore?
I’ll bet dragging it to the Dock fixes it. You can drag ANYTHING onto the Dock, after all, and I’ve never seen anything disappear from the Dock once I’ve done that.
Is there a way to drag literally anything (e.g. folders) onto the whole Dock? Not just the right part near the Trash. But yes, I suspect your idea could fix the issue. Still very unusual.
Could try:
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Rebooting (cold booting) the Mac
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Terminal:
killall Dock -
Deleting and thereby resetting the dock plist found at:
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist -
Or reset the dock from the terminal:
defaults delete com.apple.dock; killall Dock
I need to have been more clear. I have a Scrivener document that doesn’t display. drmajorbob, thanks for the clarifying info.
I suspect it is just a document issue.
I need a nap.
Yes. I have folders for multiple purposes – Scrivener, writing, images, etc. – each with relevant documents or shortcuts to apps.
How did you manage to put them there? (Again, not on the right side near the Trash, this one I’m already using for the same purpose.)
Yes, again, this is well known. You said you can place them anywhere on the Dock. How?
I didn’t say that. I said I can put anything in the Dock. It’s not an onerous restriction, limiting it to the right side of that line. I’d want folders separate from apps anyway.
So this was clearly my mistake. In my culture, when you answer “yes” to a very specific question, and again answer “yes” to a very specific follow-up question, it means yes, indeed, what was asked is possible.
In my culture, I may have read too fast and ignored or didn’t notice the word whole, perhaps because (1) I never thought of that restriction until you brought it up, (2) the right side is part of the whole dock, obviously, (3) I still don’t think it matters, and (4) the post is about the dock, not the left hand side of the dock.
That didn’t make sense to me. Why is “already using it” a problem?
Yeah, that feels familiar. 
It isn’t. Just my fruitless attempt to communicate that I know how this part of the Dock works and that I’m using it the same way as you do.
Do you mean that if you minimise a Scrivener project the icon does not appear on the right of the dock? If yes, try toggling the setting at:
→
System Preferences →
Dock & Menu Bar →
Minimise windows into application icon
Or is the project not visible in the list of recent projects available from the Scrivener icon that is on the left of the dock?