Can dock items be added for multiple OS users? Hi can anyone give me a simple step by step procedure for me to be able to use the same dock for two separate users.

I basically have me as two companies and have set up two users to keep everything separate.

But I would like to be able to add icons for  word, photoshop, and illustrator in both user accounts.
You can script dock additions, but it's actually quite a pain to do correctly and in a general manner.

The time it takes you to read one of the links I will add will be longer than it takes to just log in to each user, add the icons to the dock by hand and then logging out.


https://github.com/kcrawford/dockutil


The above link is a command line utility to manipulate a user's dock. It also can operate on multiple users at the same time, so I would start with that tool and look for others if this one doesn't work for your needs / abilities.

dockutil --add /Applications/Word.app --before 'System Preferences' --allhomes