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bstone · Jan 21, 2007, 10:49 AM

I turned on my laptop last night and tried to change something in the SP. Instead of bringing it up, it did nothing. I clicked on the SP icon on the dock and a ? on the icon appeared. I looked in /Applications and SystemPreferences.app was gone. Poof. Simply not there.

A friend sent me his and I dropped it in /Applications which solved the problem. This is confusing. I know for a fact I didn't delete it. Any clues?

Chuckit · Jan 21, 2007, 11:41 AM

Try doing a search for it to see if it got dropped somewhere odd?

bstone · Jan 21, 2007, 11:43 AM

Originally Posted by Chuckit

Try doing a search for it to see if it got dropped somewhere odd?

Did that first. Nothing came up. Very odd.

jasong · Jan 21, 2007, 12:46 PM

How do you know for a fact you didn't delete it? I'm not trying to be a jerk, but it's really unlikely that it would just disappear, and the odds of having such selective disk damage that would wipe out System Preferences and do no other damage is not good. Do you have any animals? I can't tell you how many times one of my cats has decided to take a nap on my warm PowerBook and inadvertently shut down programs and changed settings and the like. Have you looked in your Trash? Do you have other users on the same computer? Have you looked in their trash?

Off Topic, assuming you are a football fan, who are you going to root for if the Bears play the Pats in the Superbowl?

bstone · Jan 21, 2007, 03:37 PM

I am rather sure I didn't delete it. I wasn't even near /applications when I had put it to sleep Friday afternoon. To tell the truth, this isn't the first time I have heard of application's mysteriously disappearing.

That said, I am very happy OS X is as modular as to allow for me to take someone else's .app file and use it for my own.

Visualize · Jan 24, 2007, 03:54 PM

i have to chime in here and say that I have experienced the same as bstone although with Transmit. One day it just was not there. I looked everywhere for it. Even in the Trash. No luck. The preference files were still there though. odd. And no, no cats here

bstone · Jan 24, 2007, 04:05 PM

I was rooting for the Pats to get into the Superbowl. 85-86 all over again. Would have been amazing if the score would have been the same with the Bears, obviously, winning again.

Nod to Visualize. Weird that some people are having this issue. Weird.

chris v · 04:28 PM

You ought to make sure it's not directory corruption. My entire Applications folder was suddenly empty one day, but a visit from DiskWarrior fixed it right up.

jasong · Jan 25, 2007, 09:13 PM

Originally Posted by bstone

I was rooting for the Pats to get into the Superbowl. 85-86 all over again. Would have been amazing if the score would have been the same with the Bears, obviously, winning again.

I can help you no more.