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Stacks on iMac G4

Jun 1, 2008 2:13PM PDT

I've noticed that on my iMac G4, the stacks in my dock contain different "colors" or "effects" when you open a folder in grid mode. For example, if I open my Utilities folder from the dock, there are some orange highlights and colored streaks on the ends of the stack. Most of the other folders in my dock, Applications, the HD, etc., have a silver one in the same location (on the right side of the grid).

Now I know that since this is a Power PC Mac, Leopard is going to be different from the Intel version, so some features will differ in several places. I want to know if this is one of them. Should these stacked folders in my dock have these colored "highlights"? Each stack has a similar, but different, one. It would appear that it is supposed to be this way, but since I haven't since this on any other Mac, I can't tell if this is normal or not.
Assistance appreciated.

-BMF

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Cosmetic or fatal error?
Jun 2, 2008 12:38AM PDT

I can't count how many times the Windows users find a trivial thing to ask why its different even when everything works fine.

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Not necessarily a bad thing
Jun 2, 2008 10:20AM PDT

It looks interesting and in no way hinders the machine to the extent of my knowledge. I just wanted to know if other PowerPC Mac users were seeing something similar. Nothing's wrong with it, so it seems.

-BMF