Tim Rosson
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Q: Unresponsive System preferences HELP

When I attempt to open up Mail, Contacts & calendars in system preferences, the spinning beachball appears and system preferences becomes unresponsive, thus not being able to view my mail contacts & calendar settings. All other system preferences are fine to open. I would like to be able to open up my Mail, Contacts & calendar settings again.Please Provide a solution

A reply would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Tim Rosson

MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Sep 21, 2012 7:51 AM

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Q: Unresponsive System preferences HELP

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  • by Andoman,

    Andoman Andoman Feb 9, 2013 2:05 PM in response to Tim Rosson
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    Feb 9, 2013 2:05 PM in response to Tim Rosson

    I have the same problem but haven't found a solution yet

  • by Eric Root,

    Eric Root Eric Root Feb 9, 2013 2:18 PM in response to Tim Rosson
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    Feb 9, 2013 2:18 PM in response to Tim Rosson

    Maybe this will help.

     

    Run Disk Utility/Repair Permissions. Repeat until it shows no repairs were made. Clearing the log in between runs can make the process less confusing.  Also see: Disk Utility Repair Permissions You Can Safely Ignore

     

    If that doesn't fix the problem you may have a corrupt .plist.

     

    You need to look in your user Library/Preferences for the .plist. Hold down the option key while using the Finder "Go To Folder" command. Enter ~`/Library. Move the .plist(s) for the application to your desktop. Since there are several .plists, you might want to try them one at a time. If there is no change, you can put the .plist back. You will probably have to reset your preferences after doing this.

     

    If you prefer to make your user library permanently visible, use the Terminal command found below. It does work with Mountain Lion:

     

    http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/22/access-user-library-folder-in-os-x-lion/

     

    You might want to bookmark the command. I had to use it again after I installed 10.8.2. I have also been informed that if you drag the user library to Finder it will remain visible.

  • by Andoman,

    Andoman Andoman Feb 23, 2013 8:20 AM in response to Tim Rosson
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    Feb 23, 2013 8:20 AM in response to Tim Rosson

    I got it working by turning off the Wifi and AirVideo Server on my Macbook Pro retina. Did this because those two were mentioned in the extensive error log that appeared.