Printing out recovery key locks up system settings. How to prevent this?

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Printing out recovery key locks up system settings. How to prevent this?

System Settings locks up after printing out Recovery Key once generated. I have to force quit System Settings

and reopen to unlock it. This also happens when changing the Recovery Key. In either case, I cannot determine if the recovery key was generated or changed. It does not lock up if I write down the recovery key instead of printing it. Is there a solution to this? Also, how do I determine what may recovery key actually is?

iMac 24″, macOS 14.1

Posted on Nov 6, 2023 11:42 AM

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ckoch

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Jan 28, 2024 2:32 AM in response to ckoch

The update to 14.3 fixed the issue for me and I could print it and afterwards close the dialogue.

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ckoch

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Jan 16, 2024 3:19 PM in response to WhattheH

I have the same problem when I print the recovery key with the print dialogue to the left. Afterwards there is a small window filled with the same dark color to the right with nothing in it having the focus and I can only force quit the system settings process as neither print cancel or continue dialogue button works.

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Jan 26, 2024 6:23 AM in response to WhattheH

I have the same exact problem! I can't even quit system settings - everything is frozen and I have to do a hard shut down.

When I checked to see if my key was enabled after the hard shut down, it was turned off. Turned on and it generated another key.

Hello? Anyone have an answer for this? Many thanks!!

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May 5, 2024 12:31 AM in response to WhattheH

this just now happened to me as well — anybody found a fix for this?

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Printing out recovery key locks up system settings. How to prevent this?

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