dock settings

I have a new computer laptop under on El Capitan and want to customize the size of the dock, set the magnification on and remove the icons of applications that I have never use (Mail, Calendar, Notes, to-do list, Messages, FaceTime, Imovie, numbers, Pages, Keynote, Ibooks), add those that I I need to the daily ( Endnote, Acrobat, etc.), change the order of icons on the dock and change the icons of Documents and downloads which are replaced by question marks.

After making these changes, I shut down the computer but, to my surprise, when I turned on the next day, the dock is returned to its default settings. I tried different options over the weekend to make my permanent changes, but nothing works, including the displacement of the com.apple.dock.plist outside the Library/Preferences folder.

The appearance of the Office also goes to the default settings after changing the size and order of the icons of sort.

The content of the dictionary is also the default settings: here, I added some English dictionaries and Thesaurus, as well as an English-French dictionary.

Any suggestions? To my knowledge, it wasn't a previous problem with OSX.

Specifications of the computer:

MacBook Pro (retina, 15-inch, mid-2015)

OSx: 10.11.2

Processor: 2.5 GHz Intel Core i7

Memory: 16 GB DDR3 1600 MHz

Graphics card: ntel Iris Pro 1536 MB

You log on to the guest account? This is what it sounds like.

You may have a problem with your user account permissions.

You can reset your permissions of home folder using the password recovery reset - no, I don't know why they it stuck there.

Starting in recovery.

Open a Terminal from the Utilities menu.

Enter the following command and press return:

ResetPassword

When the utility opens, select the player account and the hard user.

Then, click on the button down to reset the folder permissions and ACLs.

Quit the utility, restart normally.

Tags: Mac OS & System Software

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