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Q: System preferences will not open and to shut it down, I need to shut down my system.

System preferences will not open, and to shut it down, I need to shut down my system.  It worked yesterday (May 22)

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on May 23, 2015 6:57 AM

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Q: System preferences will not open and to shut it down, I need to shut down my system.

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  • by Linc Davis,

    Linc Davis Linc Davis May 23, 2015 7:12 AM in response to RGLaut
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    May 23, 2015 7:12 AM in response to RGLaut
  • by Eric Root,

    Eric Root Eric Root May 23, 2015 11:30 AM in response to RGLaut
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    May 23, 2015 11:30 AM in response to RGLaut

    Do a backup.


    Quit the application.


    Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J.  When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder.  Select Library. Then go to Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist.  Move the .plist to your desktop.

     

    Restart the computer, open the application and test. If it works okay, delete the plist from the desktop.


    If the application is the same, return the .plist to where you got it from, overwriting the newer one.


    Thanks to leonie for some information contained in this.