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I use an external monitor with my Macbook Pro, often to run Windows VMs with a task bar at the bottom. While trying to use the task bar, I often accidentally summon the dock to the second monitor. How do I stop the dock from moving?

Note: I'm aware of the option to go back to the old one-space-for-all-displays behaviour. I don't want to go back to the old behaviour, I want to fix the new one.

Note, repeated: This isn't a duplicate of the question which asks why this happens. I know why it happens, but there's nothing there that would help me to prevent it from happening.

Simon
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  • You've made it clear this isn't what you're looking for, but for other people who come along, this link may be useful: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/169719/why-does-my-dock-keep-moving-back-to-my-other-monitor – leekaiinthesky Apr 27 '16 at 22:20
  • Agreed on both counts :-) – Simon Apr 28 '16 at 06:38
  • This isn't a duplicate of the other question. That question is asking why the bad behaviour exists, and the answers say why. There's nothing there about how to stop the bad behaviour. – Simon Aug 04 '17 at 08:47
  • Answered here: https://superuser.com/questions/665004/how-do-you-prevent-the-dock-from-switching-monitors-in-macos-catalina-or-big-sur – Jim Fell Apr 26 '21 at 13:19
  • @JimFell thanks, but unfortunately not. The answers there recommend reverting to the old behaviour; they don't say how to fix the new one. – Simon Apr 27 '21 at 14:17

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Unfortunately, there is no way to prevent the Dock from moving from monitor to monitor in any version of OS X.

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