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Using version 2.0.2, seeing same results with 10.9.5 and 10.10.5, running CLI or through policy



administrator$ dockutil --remove '/Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Microsoft Excel.app' --allhomes



item /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Microsoft Excel.app was not found in /Users/administrator/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist



also tried just using



administrator$ dockutil --remove '/Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Microsoft Excel.app'



It does exist in the plist and I tried different combinations of ' ' and to deal with spaces



<string>com.microsoft.Excel</string>
<key>dock-extra</key>
<false/>
<key>file-data</key>
<dict>
<key>_CFURLAliasData</key>
<data>
AAAAAADUAAMAAQAA0QwbhgAASCsAAAAAAC0M
+AA4/4oAANE4DXAAAAAACSD//gAAAAAAAAAA
/////wABAAgALQz4AAAAGgAOACgAEwBNAGkA
YwByAG8AcwBvAGYAdAAgAEUAeABjAGUAbAAu
AGEAcABwAA8AGgAMAE0AYQBjAGkAbgB0AG8A
cwBoACAASABEABIANkFwcGxpY2F0aW9ucy9N
aWNyb3NvZnQgT2ZmaWNlIDIwMTEvTWljcm9z
b2Z0IEV4Y2VsLmFwcAATAAEvAP//AAA=
</data>
<key>_CFURLString</key>
<string>file:///Applications/Microsoft%20Office%202011/Microsoft%20Excel.app/</string>
<key>_CFURLStringType</key>
<integer>15</integer>

I don't think you need the full path when doing a remove. Try doing just



dockutil --remove "Microsoft Excel" --allhomes


The actual example in the help document actually shows this example:



dockutil --remove 'System Preferences' --allhomes

Awesome, thats just too easy 🙂 Thank you!

I'm seeing a strange issue with dockutil 2.0.2 . When we run the command using Casper dockutil won't work.



If we run the command locally on the mac it works fine. This is on 10.10.5



What we get is the dock refreshing but nothing happening.



the log is as follows



Preparing Policy...
Executing Policy 2016-01-06 at 2:38 PM | jssadmin | 1 Computer...
Running command dockutil --remove 'TextEdit' --allhomes...
Result of command:
item TextEdit was not found in /Users/dcs/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist



Thanks

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