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| Thread ID: 97590 | 2009-02-20 23:00:00 | Blocked System Preferences in Mac OS X Tiger 10.4 | nedkelly (9059) | Press F1 |
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| 749838 | 2009-02-20 23:00:00 | Question for all the mac junkies that i know are out there, (PC users run away). I have just been give a iBook G4 by my old school and i have been going around changing all the settings to my own and I discovered that some of the preferences in the system preferences pane are grayed out (see pic), which confused me cause I am an administrator on it and only just made the account yesterday. Any ideas on how to fix it? Short of reinstalling it? |
nedkelly (9059) | ||
| 749839 | 2009-02-20 23:05:00 | sounds like the preferences have been deleted, create a new account and see if they are missing in there | plod (107) | ||
| 749840 | 2009-02-20 23:08:00 | i only just created this account though plod, and only just installed growl which is the last icon on the right in the bottom line of icons. | nedkelly (9059) | ||
| 749841 | 2009-02-20 23:16:00 | Have you repaired permissions? EDIT And if that doesn't work you could try trashing the system preferences. 1. Quit System Preferences 2. In the Finder, open up your user folder, then open Library, then Caches. Drag com.apple.preferencepanes.cache to the trash. The cache file will be recreated the next time you start System Preferences. Tell us if this clears up your problem. |
plod (107) | ||
| 749842 | 2009-02-20 23:25:00 | tried both of your suggestions plod, but i still can not access the grayed out prefs | nedkelly (9059) | ||
| 749843 | 2009-02-20 23:47:00 | hey thanks for your help plod, i just logged off and then logged back in after I deleted that file and repaired permissions and now it works. Macs Rule!!! |
nedkelly (9059) | ||
| 749844 | 2009-02-21 00:15:00 | Macs Rule!!! Don't go telling everyone. I think you will get pretty frustrated using the old G4 after a while. |
plod (107) | ||
| 749845 | 2009-02-21 02:51:00 | not really been using G3 iBook for 3 years love the upgrade | nedkelly (9059) | ||
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