Not finding plist

[Chriskmpruitt]

Ok, so i have been messing around with dockutil for the passed few days. For the most part easy to use and works great.

So I am trying to modify the Default User Template dock plist. In the dockutil --help it says to use the '/System/Library/User Template/English.lproj' plist. But when i go there, i do not have that plist. So I grab the default plist found in /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/en.lproj/.

And change it to com.apple.dock.plist, then push it out to the /System/Library/User Template/English.lproj folder.

Run the dockutil script and get this back

Script result: item Mail was not found in '/System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist' item Contacts was not found in '/System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist' item Maps was not found in '/System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist' item Messages was not found in '/System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist' item FaceTime was not found in '/System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist' item Photo Booth was not found in '/System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist' item iTunes was not found in '/System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist' item iBooks was not found in '/System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist' Microsoft Outlook already exists in dock. Use --replacing 'Microsoft Outlook' to update an existing item item /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Microsoft Outlook.app was not added to Dock Microsoft Word already exists in dock. Use --replacing 'Microsoft Word' to update an existing item item /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Microsoft Word.app was not added to Dock Microsoft Excel already exists in dock. Use --replacing 'Microsoft Excel' to update an existing item item /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Microsoft Excel.app was not added to Dock Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/dockutil", line 663, in main() File "/usr/sbin/dockutil", line 364, in main if addItem(pl, real_add_path, replace_label, position, before_item, after_item, section, displayas, showas, arrangement, tile_type, label_name): File "/usr/sbin/dockutil", line 516, in addItem if tile_replace_candidate[label_key_for_tile(tile_replace_candidate)] == replace_label: KeyError: None

I am running this in Postimage. My goal is to have the dock modify for new users.

[ghost]

per the result of your script it looks like you are trying to modify a plist that already has the changes you wanted (remove Apple apps and put MS apps instead).

[seansgm]

As posted on https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/discussion.html?id=10991, you are trying to remove items that have no label. dockutil only refers to labels for all actions other than add.

Consider a feature request to be able to remove dock items that have no label.

[kcrawford]

Yes, this is an issue of not having a label for removal. You can do removals at/after login since they would have generated labels at that point.