Bluetooth Not Showing Up in Menu Bar

HIMAN1998 said:

There is no icon for Bluetooth in the menu bar, even when show bluetooth in menu bar is checked. If I click in the area that it's supposed to be in, there is a button for it. No icon, though. Attached is a screenshot. View attachment 433056

How do I fix this? I'm on Mountain Lion with a late 08 MacBook unibody. I've tried resetting the PRAM, resetting the SMC, and kept clicking the check on and off. Nothing has worked.

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I've come across this too since updating to 10.8.5 .If anyone has a fix or workaround, i'd greatly appreciate it

HIMAN1998 said:

weird, when I updated to 10.8.5, the Bluetooth icon reappeared.

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Hi, did you use the 10.8.5 combo update or the delta update. Just trying to gauge where the issue lies. Thanks

HIMAN1998 said:

I don't know which I downloaded, I just did the one through the App Store.

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Thanks. I think it may be possible to replace the new icon under bluetooth.menu with the old one from 10.8.4 located through the go to finder option in /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/ but as I no longer have any of my macs running 10.8.4, I've not been able to try this out. If anyone still on 10.8.4 could upload a copy of this file, I'll try it out to see if it works, then will probably make an automated gui for those less tech savvy if all goes well.

Thanks

HIMAN1998 said:

There is no icon for Bluetooth in the menu bar, even when show bluetooth in menu bar is checked. If I click in the area that it's supposed to be in, there is a button for it. No icon, though. Attached is a screenshot. View attachment 433056

How do I fix this? I'm on Mountain Lion with a late 08 MacBook unibody. I've tried resetting the PRAM, resetting the SMC, and kept clicking the check on and off. Nothing has worked.

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I've come up with a fix for those using a black menubar like myself but haven't as yet done a fix for the default mac menubar like the one in your attached image. i've not tried the default Bluetooth.menu file from 10.8.4 as yet as i don't have access to a mac running 10.8.4 as all my macs have been upgraded to 10.8.5. i'll try and make up a fix for the default mac menubar and report back on how i get on.

HIMAN1998 said:

Now that I remember, this started happening after I used the Black Menu Bar. I didn't like the look and took it off and this started happening.

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If you had problems after uninstalling one of the black menubar mods available, you can either get in touch with the dev who created it, i.e through deviant art, or if you're still having issues you can use the package file i posted below to put things right. If all is well it may be a good idea to download the file anyway just in case things mess up again.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/41388906/bluetooth.pkg