Re: OS X nested Preference problems
Sorry, I'm in digest mode so if someone's already posted this fix, I didn't see it. I was browsing around the Mac Web for an unrelated problem when I found a website that mentioned rebuilding the desktop in OS X. The actual link for it is: http://macsupport.about.com/library/weekly/aa062501a.htm Basically, go to your home directory, then the Library folder, then the Preferences folder. In there should be 3 files, LSSchemes, LSClaimedTypes and LSApplications. I just trashed them and rebooted the computer and magically all the submenus started working again. Of course, I don't know what else I managed to reset in the process, so... =) None that I'm aware of. Your problem sounds strange. I've never heard of such problem. I would imagine that somehow the preference panes file types have been somehow corrupted. Preference panes appear as System Preferences documents. Somehow, they're not seen anymore by the system as being those documents. If you do an Info on a preference pane in /System/Library/PreferencePanes, does the system report them as Mac OS X Preference Pane? -Laurent. __ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
OS X nested Preference problems
This is a smidge off topic, but I'm having the problem on a Pismo 400 so maybe one of you folks can help me. I recently re-partitioned and re-installed OS X on my laptop. I started from 10.0.3, upgraded to 10.1 then did the slew of OS and security updates to get it fully up to date. Reinstalled my various software packages... etc... then I noticed something peculiar... From the Apple Menu I am no longer able to launch the dock or network preferences from their nested locations in the dock and location sub menus, respectively. The System Preferences option under the Apple Menu works fine though. I also noticed that this inability to be launched also affected the Displays menu bar icon, I'm no longer able to launch the associated preference pane from it. All of the other controls and whatnot work just fine, I just can't get into their System Preferences without manually opening them. I ran the usual litany of utilities, the latest versions of Norton, DiskWarrior, TechTool, etc... booted into single user mode and ran fsck, nothing out of the ordinary and no fix to the problem. On a whim, I tried out the haxie Fruit Menu, but that didn't restore functionality either. Is there some sort of file or preference that controls the apple and display menus? thanks in advance for any help. =) __ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: OS X nested Preference problems
On 08/07/02 10:38, Peter Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a smidge off topic, but I'm having the problem on a Pismo 400 so maybe one of you folks can help me. I recently re-partitioned and re-installed OS X on my laptop. I started from 10.0.3, upgraded to 10.1 then did the slew of OS and security updates to get it fully up to date. Reinstalled my various software packages... etc... then I noticed something peculiar... From the Apple Menu I am no longer able to launch the dock or network preferences from their nested locations in the dock and location sub menus, respectively. The System Preferences option under the Apple Menu works fine though. I also noticed that this inability to be launched also affected the Displays menu bar icon, I'm no longer able to launch the associated preference pane from it. All of the other controls and whatnot work just fine, I just can't get into their System Preferences without manually opening them. I ran the usual litany of utilities, the latest versions of Norton, DiskWarrior, TechTool, etc... booted into single user mode and ran fsck, nothing out of the ordinary and no fix to the problem. On a whim, I tried out the haxie Fruit Menu, but that didn't restore functionality either. Is there some sort of file or preference that controls the apple and display menus? None that I'm aware of. Your problem sounds strange. I've never heard of such problem. I would imagine that somehow the preference panes file types have been somehow corrupted. Preference panes appear as System Preferences documents. Somehow, they're not seen anymore by the system as being those documents. If you do an Info on a preference pane in /System/Library/PreferencePanes, does the system report them as Mac OS X Preference Pane? -Laurent. -- === Laurent DaudelinDeveloper, Multifamily, ESO, Fannie Mae mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Washington, DC, USA * Usual disclaimers apply * benchmark n.: [techspeak] An inaccurate measure of computer performance. In the computer industry, there are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and benchmarks. Well-known ones include Whetstone, Dhrystone, Rhealstone (see h), the Gabriel LISP benchmarks (see gabriel), the SPECmark suite, and LINPACK. See also machoflops, MIPS, smoke and mirrors. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: OS X nested Preference problems
This is a smidge off topic, but I'm having the problem on a Pismo 400 so maybe one of you folks can help me. I recently re-partitioned and re-installed OS X on my laptop. I started from 10.0.3, upgraded to 10.1 then did the slew of OS and security updates to get it fully up to date. Reinstalled my various software packages... etc... then I noticed something peculiar... From the Apple It sounds like a permissions issue- this was happening to a lot of people who were upgrading to 10.1 and still can happen due to certain installers. Try running this and see if it doesn't help: http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=13635db=mac It's a script released by apple to help fix some of the permissions wonkiness going on. The only other thing I can think of is an oddity in OSX that sometimes doesn't want to let certain applications run on anything but the boot drive. When you partitioned, did you move your /user folder around at all? Michael Bryan Bell -- ICQ: 16106263Yahoo: mhbell1 No Link for you! AIM: drunkenbatman -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: OS X nested Preference problems
Has anyone else tried running the repair permissions script more than once? When I ran it the second time, I figured that no new changes would have been made, but I figured wrong. One day had elapsed between the two. When I ran it a third time (a day later) more changes were reflected in the log. The first run reflected quite a few changes (the log file was over 160 KB) while the subsequent runs were much smaller. On Monday, July 8, 2002, at 01:17 PM, Michael Bryan Bell wrote: Try running this and see if it doesn't help: http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=13635db=mac It's a script released by apple to help fix some of the permissions wonkiness going on. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: OS X nested Preference problems
On 08/07/02 16:33, Peter Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had a couple of problems at first with double clicking on files not properly launching applications. That seemed to have fixed itself. To answer your question about the Preference Panes, their kind is listed as Package. The different panes have odd Version numbers... some have numbered versions, others are just their preference pane names(?). I'm quite baffled by the whole thing really. More of that OS X learning curve, I guess. Thanks for the quick response too. =) On Monday, July 8, 2002, at 12:12 PM, (G-Books) wrote: None that I'm aware of. Your problem sounds strange. I've never heard of such problem. I would imagine that somehow the preference panes file types have been somehow corrupted. Preference panes appear as System Preferences documents. Somehow, they're not seen anymore by the system as being those documents. If you do an Info on a preference pane in /System/Library/PreferencePanes, does the system report them as Mac OS X Preference Pane? Well, that could well be your problem. On my Pismo, they all show up as Mac OS X Preference Pane. You could try to change their type by choosing Open with application... in the info window. From there, you should try to locate System Preferences 2.0. At least, that's what is listed when I choose Open with application... with one of those file. Note that you can run into permission problems since /System/Library/PreferencePanes is protected for writing usually. Only root can modify that directory. -Laurent. -- === Laurent DaudelinDeveloper, Multifamily, ESO, Fannie Mae mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Washington, DC, USA * Usual disclaimers apply * Gates's Law: The speed of software halves every 18 months. This oft-cited law is an ironic comment on the tendency of software bloat to outpace the every-18-month doubling in hardware capacity per dollar predicted by Moore's Law. The reference is to Bill Gates; Microsoft is widely considered among the worst if not the worst of the perpetrators of bloat. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
