I need help using the Stacks feature in the Dock.  When I drag a
document out of the Finder and move it  into a folder in the Dock,
the entire document is removed from the Finder.  No trace of the
document is left in the Finder.   Then, if I delete the document from
the folder in the Dock the document is lost - it does not reappear in
the Finder.  What am I doing wrong?  I would like to be able to use
Stacks without risking the loss of my documents.

Thanks for your help.

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<0c7e353f-bb5e-4953-96b9-4b6c15e4c284@m45g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>,
 PLB <PLBrizz@gmail.com> wrote:

> I need help using the Stacks feature in the Dock.  When I drag a
> document out of the Finder and move it  into a folder in the Dock,
> the entire document is removed from the Finder.  No trace of the
> document is left in the Finder.   Then, if I delete the document from
> the folder in the Dock the document is lost - it does not reappear in
> the Finder.  What am I doing wrong?  I would like to be able to use
> Stacks without risking the loss of my documents.
> 
> Thanks for your help.

When you say "document is removed from the Finder", I think you really 
mean "document is removed from the desktop".  All folders are viewed in 
the Finder.  The desktop is just a special folder that's automatically 
displayed on the Finder background.

When you move a document from one folder to another, it disappears from 
the first folder.  Maybe what you actually want to do is make an alias 
instead of moving the document.  Hold down Cmd-Option while dragging and 
you'll get an alias.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
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