After installing 10.8, I notice that the option to disable remote control is gone in 10.8 for me. Is this normal? There should be a check box below the ones shown here, or so I thought. My remote still works, but sometimes I like to turn it off.
iMac, OS X Mountain Lion
Nope it should be there.
What happens if you log into another account on your mac (create one in > System Preferences... > Users & Groups if necessary). Do you seem the same thing?
It's missing from another account (admin) I created as well. What can I do?
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Sorry, last post was meant for another thread, similar problem (sort of!).
Can you try one more diagnostic please. Restart the mac while also holding down the 'shift' key to boot into Safe Mode. You can release the 'shift' key when you see the grey Apple logo and the progress bar underneath it.
When the progress bar completes, log in and check System Prefs. Same problem?
I do in fact see the option to disable the remote when in safe mode. 😀 Now what can I do?
Download and run this diagnostic tool
http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck
Hit 'copy to clipboard' at the bottom of the window, then use 'command-v' to paste the results into a reply to this post.
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1. Uninstall Avetron AVEX video app and be sure the files
com.avatron.AVExVideo
com.avatron.AVExFramebuffer
are deleted from System/Library/Extensions folder.
Restart the mac and see if the problem is solved. If not then go to Step 2:
2. Remove all of the following
Caffeine
ScreenCapture
Google Drive
Xmarks for Safari
Notify
GrowlTunes
from
> System Preferences... > Users & Groups | Login Items.
Restart the mac and see if the problem is solved. If not then go to Step 3:
3. Uninstall CleanMyMac and
4. Delete
com.ecamm.printopia.plist
from ~/Library/Launch Agents
(you will need to make Finder active, choose 'Go' in the menubar, hold down 'option' on the keyboard then choose Library to find this folder).
Restar the mac. If the problem persists, post back.
Unfortunately, none of this worked.
In that list which you deleted from your earlier post is the answer to your problem. That list contains (among other things) the difference between 'Safe Mode' and your User account.
It's hard for me to suggest what else to try as I don't have access to the list. In general, though, the procedure is to remove non-Apple things systematically from these folders
1. [user/home] / Library / Launch Agents
2. [user/home] / Library/ Launch Daemons
3. System Preferences > Users & Groups | Login Items
For 3, just remove everything from the list and restart. However, for 1 & 2, don't just go deleting those files. Instead, move them out temporarily to somewhere safe, restart, then move them back in if they don't solve the problem. Also, some of those things may belong to apps that have to be uninstalled properly, so you need to consider what each belongs to and uninstall the app if necessary first.
After moving anything, you need to restart the system. All these things run on log in, so you won't see any change till you log in again.
If all of that fails, you could try deleting the entire contents of
[user/home] /Library/ Preferences /
and restarting the computer.
This will reset ALL your preferences across your entire account (every app, the Dock, Finder etc etc) back to default.
Message was edited by: softwater
Sorry - here's the list again, slightly updated. If you can, take a look and let me know what you think before I delete all my preferences. Thanks for your time.
Hardware:
Hardware Overview:
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac12,1
Processor Name: Intel Core i5
Processor Speed: 2.7 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 16 GB
Boot ROM Version: IM121.0047.B1F
SMC Version (system): 1.71f22
Software:
System Software Overview:
System Version: OS X 10.8 (12A269)
Kernel Version: Darwin 12.0.0
Time since boot: 5 minutes
Kernel Extensions:
com.iospirit.driver.rbiokithelper Version: 1.8.0
System Launch Daemons:
[not loaded] bootps.plist
[not loaded] com.danga.memcached.plist
[loaded] com.vix.cron.plist
[not loaded] exec.plist
[not loaded] finger.plist
[not loaded] ftp.plist
[not loaded] login.plist
[not loaded] ntalk.plist
[not loaded] org.apache.httpd.plist
[not loaded] org.cups.cups-lpd.plist
[running] org.cups.cupsd.plist
[not loaded] org.freeradius.radiusd.plist
[not loaded] org.isc.named.plist
[not loaded] org.net-snmp.snmpd.plist
[running] org.ntp.ntpd.plist
[not loaded] org.openldap.slapd.plist
[loaded] org.postfix.master.plist
[not loaded] org.postgresql.postgres_alt.plist
[not loaded] shell.plist
[not loaded] ssh.plist
[not loaded] telnet.plist
[not loaded] tftp.plist
System Launch Agents:
[loaded] org.openbsd.ssh-agent.plist
Launch Daemons:
[loaded] com.google.keystone.daemon.plist
[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist
Launch Agents:
[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist
[running] jp.co.canon.CUPSCMFP.BG.plist
[running] jp.co.canon.UFR2.BG.plist
User Launch Agents:
[not loaded] .DS_Store
[loaded] com.adobe.ARM.202f4087f2bbde52e3ac2df389f53a4f123223c9cc56a8fd83a6f7ae.plist
[running] com.ecamm.printopia.plist
[loaded] com.google.GoogleContactSyncAgent.plist
User Login Items:
AirPort Base Station Agent, iTunes, Notify
Now my remote's not working at all. I could't pair it. In safe mode I can, so I'm not sure what the issue is, but I'm getting ready to fire this thing out a window. Sort of. 🙂
Now the remote is working again but the option to disable the IR receiver is still gone, so my initial problem remains. I did try deleting all my entire contents of my preferences which did not resolve the problem. It took quite awhile to get re-set up from that but I'd love to find out why the option to disable the IR receiver is still gone.
If you're running Candleair, look for the IR options in it's preferences.
I'm not. I searched for Candleair and nothing came up. Is it ever installed with another application?
Option to disable remote control is gone in 10.8?
