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Menu Bar Disappeared

Just installed Snow Leopard, and the menu bar at the top right of the screen has disappeared. Spotlight, wireless, sound, power, date, they are all gone. Before the update I was running Leopard with XMenu, which seems to be incompatible with SL. I uninstalled XMenu, restarted and the menu is still missing.

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.4.7), 2.0 White 2GB 160Gb

Posted on Aug 28, 2009 1:02 PM

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Daniel Nolen Iii

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Posted on Aug 28, 2009 1:04 PM

The process that displays this is called "SystemUIServer"

Check Activity Monitor (all processes) or Console for any mentions.

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Mac-Medic

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Aug 30, 2009 9:15 AM in response to papa1940

Trashed the entire preference file and all is well except now have to redo preferences for all applications. Oh well .... problem solved. Thanks for the help

I didn't tell you to trash that folder, just drag it to the desktop. You could have dragged a few preferences files back at a time until you found the bad one. It's almost like troubleshooting an extensions conflict in OS 9.

The folder might still be in the trash if you didn't empty the trash.

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Sep 5, 2009 9:41 AM in response to yhnjgkfhkhk

Had the same issue, deleting the preferences fixed it for me as well. Thanks a bunch!

Sep 26, 2009 9:59 PM in response to yhnjgkfhkhk

Hi i have just bought a imac core duo 9white)and have had it for two day's now>The first day everything was going good until the menu bar that run's the length of the top of the screen has dissapeared.I do not know what to do because i have just swapped from a pc to a mac and this happens on the first night of owning it!!I have tried to turn off then start up again but no change.Also have tried(holding down the F,R,apple key and option also no result!Then was told how to safe boot it also no change still stuck!!It is wierd because the screen saver is like normal and the dock still has all of the icon's in it just can not open anything without it saying that it shut unexpectedly and do i want to report it?I have ordered a new copy of snow leopard like the place that i bought it from told me to do hope that fix's it!If not does anyone know how to or heard of this happening to anyone else??I thought that APPLE was better than PC'S or it might just be a bug or something?Please help me fix only two day's old!!!!!!!!!!!!
gallogallinar@gmail.com

Menu Bar Disappeared