why do some Dock items path have /localhost and some other don’t
file://localhost/Applications/*****.app
file:///Applications/GarageBand.app/
the main ones i see that have /localhost are applications that don’t come preinstalled on a mac.
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Dock Items path
+16If you look closely, you’ll see that the one with “localhost” has two slashes, and the one that does not include “localhost” has three. It’s just a shorthand for referring to the local machine. Some documentation calls the three slash version the “modern” format.
I don’t know, however, how one is set over the other. I suspect it is in the way that the dock item was added, e.g. by command, by “Keep in Dock”, etc...
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