After installing Lion 10.7, I find that whenever I try to change the desktop wallpaper in system preferences, it freezes and I have to force quit it.
I tried to find the systempreferences.plist, as seen from google searches, but I can't find it anywhere, and those seem to be solutions for SL, L or Tiger.
Help appreciated.
Thanks!
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7)
Try Reparing Permissions. Disk Unility can be found using Spotlight.
Disk Utility>Your OS X HDD>Repair Disk Permissions.
I did as u said but still doesn't work.
In addition, my boot camp partition cannot be 'verified' as well.
I think the wallpaper I used is from the windows parition, maybe that is something to do with that, because my other 'spaces' work fine and normal.
The same happened to me. It has to do with a problem accessing the images on the home>images folder.
To solve it, just move its content (iphoto library included) to another place. Then, restart System Preferences.
It has to do with a problem accessing the images on the home>images folder. To solve it, just move its content (iphoto library included) to another place. Then, restart System Preferences. Moving your iPhoto library to another location seems to fix the problem. I am sure Apple will issue an update to correct this problem. But, for now this seems to work for me.
OH THANK GOD!! YOU ROCK!! MOVING PHOTO'S JUST TO DESKTOP UNFROZE IT AND NOW WORKS AFTER MOVING PIX BACK TO ORIGINAL PHOTO:) HOPE THE UPDATE COMES SOON THOUGH!
You guys are the best! it worked.. thankyou soo much!XD
Yeap! I had the same problem and moving it worked!!!!
Thanks
Also agree with Bryan, hope an update comes soon!
OMG, THAANK YOUUU!
I've been having the same issue with system preferences in osx lion freezing and not doing anything for the past week. Your post solved the problem; all I had to do was move the iphoto library and the photo booth library to the desktop, then I moved them back to my pictures folder in the finder window. Now system preferences works like a charm, even if I restart the system the system preferences utilities are all accessible.
This solved the problem; whereas other posts that had me use disk utility to repair the hard drive or repair the disk permissions didn't solve the issue.
This now saves me a call to apple tech support 🙂
Thank you.
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It has to do with a problem accessing the images on the home>images folder. To solve it, just move its content (iphoto library included) to another place. Then, restart System Preferences. Moving your iPhoto library to another location seems to fix the problem. I am sure Apple will issue an update to correct this problem. But, for now this seems to work for me.
Thanks Lot....Worked for ..:)
I have the same problem, this is my first Apple product (27" iMac, Lion OS) so I will try to fix it this way but I don't know how to change the location of iphoto library to stop preferences from 'not responding', I'm sure it is quite simple, can someone help?
Thanks!
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Login in as Admin and Open the HD
Open the User folder and select the user name u logged in with, open it and navigate to Pictures
From the Pictures folder -> Drag the Iphoto Library to desktop ( so the you can put back)
Drag the Photo Booth Library to desktop
Now try the system Preferences should work
Thanks
Suri
You sir, are a gentleman and a scholar!
My daughter is back up and running!
Thanks!
Well I just had this happen to me and your solution worked like a charm.
Thank you Sir
This just started happening to me after I downloaded the Mountain Lion Galaxy wallpaper. Im on 10.7.3. System Prefs stopped responding. I used Disk Utility, Onyx, and several other maint. Apps. All I did to fix was open a new Finder Window, find the iPhoto Library and move it. Mine was in User//Pictures folder. I put it in the Finder Pictures sidebar item and Finder restarted, or drag to Desktop then put back into Pictures Sidebar item, and System Prefs worked.
System Preferences not responding when opening desktop
