Menu bar problems in Yosemite?

Hi TheProfessor314,

If you are having an issue with being unable to use some items in the menu bar of your Mac mini there are some possibilities for troubleshooting. I would suggest first testing to see if the issue is limited to a single user account. See this article for how -

Isolating an issue by using another user account

You may also want to try booting the computer into Safe Mode to see if the issue continues to occur. See this article -

OS X: What is Safe Boot, Safe Mode?

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Best,

Brett L

More similar symptoms from Yosemite 10.10 on an iMac late 2012 Core i7:

1. Time Machine, BlueTooth, WiFi icons are suddenly missing after reboot. Maybe others. Time Zone info is wrong.

2. Time Zone became changed from USA Eastern to USA Mountain time. Cannot change Apple time server from USA to Europe or Asia or get changes made in time Preferences to appear on menu bar.

3. Spinning wheel appears in this localized menu bar area.

4. Time Machine: Time Machine became turned off somehow. "show Time Machine in menu bar" option became unchecked. Impossible to re-check this option. (Backups continue and are reported next to each backup disk).

5. Spotlight works.,

6. Whatever is directly to the right of Spotlight (icon looks like a bulleted list) is also spinning wheel.

Boot into the Recovery volume (boot with the Command + R keys held down), select Disk Utility and repair both the disk permissions and disk. Reboot normally and check.

If that doesn't help boot again in to the Recovery volume and reinstall the system.

Old Toad's suggestion worked like a charm. Hundreds of screwed up permissions. Thanks!

That didn't work for me. I repaired permissions and disk and I still don't see some icons on the menu bar

That didn't work for me. I repaired permissions and disk and I still don't see some icons on the menu bar

If the safe boot and other suggestions didn't work boot into the Recovery volume (boot with the Command + R keys held down) and reinstall the system. Repair disk permissions afterward.

Safe boot worked

Can anyone help with my issue? My new mac (2015 Macbrook Pro 15.4, latest version of Yosemite) has 2 user accounts, the new one I created when I opened the new computer (I'll call it the primary account) and the second user account with all my migrated data from my old mac (the secondary account). I had to download Google Drive again as the icon disappeared from the menu in both accounts so I couldn't use it and nothing was syncing. I downloaded Google drive from the primary account as it would not let me open the App when I tried to download it into my secondary account. I can only see the Google drive icon in the primary user account and not the secondary account with all my migrated data. How can I get the Google drive icon and folder to be fully accessible and usable in both user accounts? I have tried creating permissions but this is not very effective as it seems you have to do this for each individual document and also this would not enable me to create documents to save into the google drive from the secondary account.

If its relevant my old Macbook with the migrated data was Snow Leopard 10.6.8, purchased early 2010. I upgraded that to Yosemite just before migrating my data.

Make the secondary account an admin account and then try reinstalling. System Preferences/Users & Groups.

I've just tried this and it doesn't work. In my second user account when I open Google Drive in the Apps folder it says I do not have permission to open this folder even though I have given myself Admin permission and I have read and write permission to open the document.

I then logged back into the first user account and the google icon was there before I even tried to open the Google drive app so I have left it there for now.

You are awesome sir and , thank you for your advice! I I did what you recommended with trepidation and it worked! I have been trying to restore my sanity/ my MacBook Pro 17/Yosemity/scroll bar etc. etc. I am not happy about Apple' s lackadaisical attitude to "unweil" the newest OS which is not ready for the prime time. Will I "update" to El Capitan -lessl likely.

But my hat off to you sir - you made my like easier.