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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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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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Aug 28, 2009 4:26 PM in response to Mac-Medic

I have a similar problem as described here and additionally do not have the preference file you mentioned in your response. I am currently doing a reinstall to see if that helps. Works great on my MacBook (black) but my iMac not so much.

When I setup a second account the menu bar does appear but no luck on my main account.

Any further suggestions.

Aug 30, 2009 2:52 AM in response to Mac-Medic

I also had the same trouble - menu bar had lost all the icons except Googlenotifier, Caffeine, Quicksilver and Growl! Spotlight icon flashed on and off intermittently - mostly off! Just found Preferences in Library and dragged to Desktop. All back now - but dont understand what I've done! Any learned explanation of what this has done would be really useful. Many thanks Mac Medic!

Menu Bar Disappeared

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