Here you go. Close the pogoplug app. Right click on it and choose "show package contents". In the "content" folder there is an info.plist file. Open that file in textedit and change the "0" in the last string line to a "1". Save the file and relaunch the pogoplug app and the icon should no longer appear in the dock.
Categories: Pogoplug Drive for Mac OS X
Has anyone been able to successfully hide the pogoplug dock icon?
It seems redundant to have both the menubar icon and dock icon visible at al time.
I don't recall this being an issue in the previous version of the desktop software.
Thanks
> and the icon should no longer appear in the dock.
This also excludes the Pogoplug icon from the list of Apps when switching using Cmd-Tab, which IMHO is the main benefit.
So... a useful fix, thanks.
But it would be much more appropriate and Mac-savvy, wouldn't it, to have this as a Pref Pane?
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Chris
I definitely agree with you. THis should simply be a check box option in the preferences but at least for now this does the trick.
It's not working for me!? Just upgraded today and this fix had worked for me on the last version but I've made the change from 0 to 1 and if I reopen the file, it shows it as the changed value, but every time I re-start pogoplug, the icon is in my dock. Suggestions?
Okay, ignore the last question. I still don't have a good explanation. It didn't work, but I had issues with the software remembering my password before as well. That turned out to be because I don't operate logged into my admin account.
I uninstalled, logged out and logged into admin, reinstalled. Made the change to the info.plist and then it worked. And like the password problem before, it works now that I'm logged into my regular account as well.
So, if anyone else has this issue and run under a non-admin account, you might try the above.
There's a program called Dockless.app that will allow you to make any program not show up in the dock. The only bad thing about this is that you won't be able to access a programs menus since it no longer shows up as a running program. Still, it save you from having to edit the plist files.
I don't really see the problem with the Dock. Doesn't everybody auto-hide the Dock (which, as all old NeXTStep guys like me know was always intended by God to go on the right hand side of the screen...)?
The problem is with the Pogoplug drive app showing up among the Command-Tab switch icons, where it just gets in the way.
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Chris
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