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Doc HM · Jun 19, 2010, 02:50 PM

Client Mac (Intel iMAc 20in - 10.6.4)
The mail, calendar, address book etc icons have vanished from the top bar of the application window. Tried binning plist, copied version of app over from second mac. Run disk util etc. Icons still awol.

Any ideas?

Cold Warrior · Jun 19, 2010, 04:32 PM

dump the application's cache from ~/Library/Caches

Big Mac · Jun 20, 2010, 04:54 AM

Hey Doc, why would you think running disk utility would solve a problem like that?

Doc HM · Jun 20, 2010, 02:21 PM

Originally Posted by Big Mac

Hey Doc, why would you think running disk utility would solve a problem like that?

There were plenty of other issues, including spinning beach balls, application crashes etc. So that was part of the whole fixinating.

Turns out the client had bought a new laptop and migrated her data over fine, however she then did a load of work on the iMac and then decided to try to copy this over too. So reconnected the two and tries to use migration assistant again (!!) but got it the wrong way round and migrated stuff BACK onto the iMac.

iMac was running 10.5, laptop 10.6 so loads of apps ended up running under the wrong OS.

Took some sorting.

kevinlarry · Jan 21, 2011, 10:46 PM

My MBP encounter the same problem, check the /Library privilileges, it's root:admin, sudo chown root:wheel /Library/Widgets. The icons reappear.