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I know that whenever we add an icon to the dock, it gets added to ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist file. So, when I wanted to remove a dock icon from a program, I removed the corresponding entry from the plist file. However, I am seeing some issues in Mountain Lion(only). Sometimes, when I delete the entry from the com.apple.dock.plist file and kill the dock, the dock icon is still present in the dock. I am not sure how this can be possible. I confirmed that the application is not running. Is there any other location where dock information gets stored? Has anybody else faced such issues?

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Is there a specific reason why you edit the plist instead of dragging the icon out of the Dock? – patrix♦ Aug 13 '12 at 7:38
Why can't you just use the drag out method to remove dock icons? Is this for some sort of scripting that you need to manually edit the plist? – XAleXOwnZX Aug 13 '12 at 7:39
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Yes, the process is a part of an automation script which removes the entry from the plist file to remove the dock icon. The same was working consistently till MacOS 10.7. – Vikram Singh Aug 13 '12 at 8:09
So the script also does not work on OS X 10.7, correct? – MrDaniel Aug 13 '12 at 19:28
The script work fine on 10.7 and below systems. Problem occurs only in 10.8 – Vikram Singh Aug 14 '12 at 0:34

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