Add Spacers to the Dock in MacOS Sierra

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If you use the Mac Dock like I do, chances are the icons are crammed together because you have so many of them. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a spacer ‘|’ in between them?  Well, with the below Terminal command, you can.

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Here’s what to do:

1. Launch Terminal (Finder > Applications > Utilities > Terminal)
2. Type:

defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add ‘{tile-data={}; tile-type=”spacer-tile”;}’

killall Dock

The killall Dock command is on another line, and resets the dock so you can see the spacers in between the icons.

Source: 9to5Mac.com / Lifehacker.com

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