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Invisible Separators for OSX Dock

I’ve been working on Mac OS X for quite a few years now and the one thing that always bugged me was the way all the little icons would run together . Sure I could group them together by task or role but it still took a split second longer than it should have to find what I needed. Also, all crammed together like that, you’re kind of limited to how many apps you have down there. So I Googled for a solution and this is what I found:

You can insert blank separators by just entering a little line of code into your Terminal. Here’s the code (repeat for as many separators as you need, you can always delete them later by dragging them out of your dock like a normal icon):

defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add '{tile-data={}; tile-type="spacer-tile";}'

and then just enter this code to refresh the dock and see the changes:

killall Dock

Now you can just drag your blank separators wherever you need them to break your list of applications up like in the screenshot above. Bonus: this little trick is designed into the OS and isn’t pulling in any plugins or outside programs.

Source: MacNN Forums

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