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Menu bar all icons disappeared, how to fix

All the righthand site Icons have disappeared (Clock Bluetooth etc) in my menu bar. If I go in to the control panel and for example try to tick the tick button for the clock it refuses to take it. The tick box for Bluetooth for example is ticked and I can change it back and forth but nothing appears.

I looked for the file com.apple.systemuiserver.plist to delete but have non (I am on SL) but found com.apple.systemuiserver.0017f2ce9d5.plist in the system and com.apple.systemuiserver.CE962C9A-38CF-526D-A6D8-in the user account. Deleting theses did not do it.

I did a safe booth and this did not do it either.

Anybody know how to fix? Thanks.

MBP, MM, MBP - 10.6 + Windooz XP on a hard partition

Posted on Sep 21, 2010 12:47 AM

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Posted on Sep 21, 2010 5:39 AM

Besides the ones with numbers, which are ByHost, there should be this one in your home folder Library/Preferences.

/Users/your user name/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systemuiserver.plist

The other thing I'd try is running Applejack which is a very useful little program for troubleshooting and repairing. It runs from Single User Mode. Hold CMD-S at the startup chime. Here's a short article explaining how it's used. (Also, be sure to read the Read Me.) It's very easy to use. You just follow the on screen prompts. First, just type in applejack and press return. To begin with, I'd only run it only for steps 3 and 4, which will do a relatively light cache cleaning and check for corrupted Preference files. Doing it this way, you'll also be able to run those steps for your user, not just the system. If that doesn't help, you can run it for deeper cache cleaning by typing in applejack AUTO and let it run through a full sequence of tasks. Note: that if you do a deeper cache cleaning, you can expect the system to run a bit slower until those caches are rebuilt.

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10334620-263.html?tag=mfiredir

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http://applejack.sourceforge.net/
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Sep 21, 2010 5:39 AM in response to ChangeAgent

Besides the ones with numbers, which are ByHost, there should be this one in your home folder Library/Preferences.

/Users/your user name/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systemuiserver.plist

The other thing I'd try is running Applejack which is a very useful little program for troubleshooting and repairing. It runs from Single User Mode. Hold CMD-S at the startup chime. Here's a short article explaining how it's used. (Also, be sure to read the Read Me.) It's very easy to use. You just follow the on screen prompts. First, just type in applejack and press return. To begin with, I'd only run it only for steps 3 and 4, which will do a relatively light cache cleaning and check for corrupted Preference files. Doing it this way, you'll also be able to run those steps for your user, not just the system. If that doesn't help, you can run it for deeper cache cleaning by typing in applejack AUTO and let it run through a full sequence of tasks. Note: that if you do a deeper cache cleaning, you can expect the system to run a bit slower until those caches are rebuilt.

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10334620-263.html?tag=mfiredir

Download

http://applejack.sourceforge.net/
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Sep 21, 2010 9:45 AM in response to WZZZ

WZZZ wrote:

/Users/your user name/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systemuiserver.plist


as said not there, sorry. looked for it before posting, as I knew this would be one of the steps.
The other thing I'd try is running Applejack .....


well the problem started after running it. Have a sleep problem and as part of solving that I ran Applejack. sleep problem still there Menu Barr problem added.

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Sep 22, 2010 6:21 AM in response to ChangeAgent

Do you have all these? But I have no idea which one (s), if missing or damaged, would be responsible for the right side stuff. Anyway maybe worth having a look. (I also have some third party junk in my MenuBar, but don't see anything here directly related.) This is everything that comes up for MenuBar.

Maybe time for a reinstall? In 10.6 equivalent to an A&I. Or, maybe some way of using Pacifist to just re-install this part of the OS? I'm not very savvy about using Pacifist, maybe someone else can make a suggestion.

http://www.charlessoft.com/

/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Extras/lib/python/wx-2. 8-mac-unicode/wx/tools/XRCed/plugins/bitmaps/wxMenuBar.png

/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/Extras/lib/python/wx-2. 8-mac-unicode/wx/tools/XRCed/plugins/bitmaps/wxMenuBar.png

/usr/share/man/mann/tk_menuBar.ntcl.gz

/System/Library/Tcl/iwidgets4.0.2/scripts/menubar.itk

/usr/share/man/mann/iwidgets_menubar.n.gz

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