I have a Twitter account showing in internet accounts that I can't delete. It gives me an error message 'There was an error in Internet Accounts preferences.' when I click on it and shuts the internet account panel.
MacBook Pro, Other OS, 10.11.1
Back up all data before proceeding.
Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
~/Library/Accounts/Accounts3.sqlite
Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select
Services ▹ Reveal in Finder (or just Reveal)
from the contextual menu.* A folder should open with an item selected. Move the selected item to the Trash. Log out or restart the computer and empty the Trash.
*If you don't see the contextual menu item, copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. In the Finder, select
Go ▹ Go to Folder...
from the menu bar and paste into the box that opens by pressing command-V. You may not see what you pasted because a line break is included. Press return.
Back up all data before proceeding.
Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
~/Library/Accounts/Accounts3.sqlite
Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select
Services ▹ Reveal in Finder (or just Reveal)
from the contextual menu.* A folder should open with an item selected. Move the selected item to the Trash. Log out or restart the computer and empty the Trash.
*If you don't see the contextual menu item, copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. In the Finder, select
Go ▹ Go to Folder...
from the menu bar and paste into the box that opens by pressing command-V. You may not see what you pasted because a line break is included. Press return.
That's sorted it thanks so much.
Thank you Linc!!!!!!!!
As this also happened to me when I was doing an update for a Mac PhotoShop like program. Fixed it up although i had to go through accounts and reset defaults etc. I was back to normal other wise.
Again many thanks. The Support team from halfway around the world were able to track this down and send me link and it fixed my issue.
Mark Adelman
Worked for me as well.
Since I had iCloud keychain enabled-- all of my accounts repopulated successfully.
I tried to do this in 10.11.2 and ended up with no accounts at all. I tried it twice after restoring the sqlite file but it didn't work. Any ideas?
Hi Linc,
New twitter @null account appeared today for no reason with reboot - any idea why this happened?
AND: I tried this today with OS X 10.11.3 and reveal in finder step did not open another window. Any Ideas?
That nuked all local Mail mailboxes and Contacts groups. Before I do a restore of my entire system from a Time Machine backup, am I missing something from your instructions or did you just not know that would happen?
Twitter @(null) account in internet accounts
