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Messed Up Preference Panes
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Mar 16, 2003, 11:58 PM
 
This is odd, on my G4 desktop (description in signature) I'm getting "Accounts" showing up in two places in my System Preferences and Internet is missing. See the following picture:



Any thoughts on how I can fix this situation?

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Mar 17, 2003, 12:32 AM
 
Things to try :

- Trash ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.preferencepanes.cache

- If it does not fix the issue, try to trash ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist

Also, check /Library/PreferencePanes and ~/Library/PreferencePanes and see if there is an extra Accounts prefpane (trash it if this is the case).
(Last edited by pat++; Mar 17, 2003 at 12:37 AM. )
     
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Mar 17, 2003, 12:49 AM
 
Originally posted by pat++:
Things to try :

- Trash ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.preferencepanes.cache

- If it does not fix the issue, try to trash ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist

Also, check /Library/PreferencePanes and ~/Library/PreferencePanes and see if there is an extra Accounts prefpane (trash it if this is the case).
Thanks that solved my problem of the Accounts Preference pane not showing up, and 2 keyboard Preference panes.

I did the prefs trash, but didn't even think about the cache. It's been like that for a good month now.
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Mar 17, 2003, 01:04 AM
 
This is why I love the MacNN forums! Trashing the cache worked perfectly.


THANK YOU!!!


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