Character palette has become too bashful

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Level 2

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Character palette has become too bashful

My character palette has taken to appearing for only a couple of seconds when summoned, and then only as an empty frame. I have to then “hide” it or it does this whenever I click on the desktop. Trashing the four “com.apple.IntlDataCache.le . . .” files had no effect.

I found no "character palette" files in my computer till I reached “HD/System/Library/Components” file, where there's a “CharacterPalette.component” file of about 13 MB. Could this file be corrupted and could downloading a new one from somewhere restore the character palette?

MacBook 1.83, iBook G4, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Jul 22, 2010 5:12 PM

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Answer 1

BDAqua

Level 10

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Jul 22, 2010 6:14 PM in response to Keith Nichols

Hi Keith, I kind of doubt it's that file, you can't download it per se, but it Likely could be extracted from your Install Disc, (possibly the big 10.4.11 Update too), using Pacifist...

http://www.charlessoft.com/

My bet would be one or all of these...

Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, then move these files to the Desktop, then Trash the original of the last one(s).

/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist

/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/ByHost/Users/YourUserName/Library/Prefer ences/com.apple.CharPaletteServer.plist

/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systemuiserver.plist

/com.apple.HIToolbox.<12digitHex#>.plist

There may be more than one of the last one above.

You may need to check show it in the Menubar again.

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Answer 2

Keith Nichols Author

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Jul 24, 2010 4:25 AM in response to BDAqua

BDaqua: Your suggestion to trash preference files worked fine. I trashed the files you listed, and the palette works okay again. Is it that trashing any or all preference files will only improve system functioning?

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Answer 3

BDAqua

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Jul 24, 2010 11:20 AM in response to Keith Nichols

Good news, trashing pref files only helps if there's a problem with the pref files, it can cause loss of data in some Applications.

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Answer 4

rdopfel

Level 1

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Jul 30, 2010 7:56 AM in response to BDAqua

hey and help bdaqua.
barely need to come on for upport but a? you can ?ee i cannot type the letter '?' which come after the letter 'r' in the engli?h alphabet.

I am trying your fix here.... ?afe bootup.
believe it or not - ten year? ago I ?upported mac?....but i am ?o ru?ty

If you know what I can do to fix my problem, plea?e let me know.
i cannot work !
thank?,
r

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Answer 5

BDAqua

Level 10

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Jul 30, 2010 9:16 AM in response to rdopfel

OK, to start with let's see if this works...

System Preferences>International>Input Menu tab, check Keyboard Viewer, then up under the flag in the top right menubar, choose Show Keyboard Viewer, then click on the s there, does it enter an s in a reply?

ssssssss

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Answer 6

Tom Gewecke

Level 10

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Jul 30, 2010 10:03 AM in response to rdopfel

Check system preferences/speech to make sure "s" has not been entered as the trigger for Speech Recognition or Text to Speech.

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