Bluetooth menu bar icon weirdness

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  1. dreamsINdigital, Oct 13, 2006

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    For some reason, the Bluetooth icon in my menu bar is acting strangely. From time to time, it will move to a different spot by itself or completely disappear! This doesn't happen with the other icons. If I move it back to where I want it, it will just happen again randomly. It's unpredictable. Does anyone else have this problem or know how to make it stay put?

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  2. bousozoku, Oct 13, 2006

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    Yes, a while back, it disappeared and it re-appeared weeks later, next to the Spotlight icon.
     
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  3. WildCowboy, Oct 13, 2006

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    Yes, I've had this problem as well. Mine disappears every time I update to a new OS point release. But I have seen it move too. I gave up worrying about it a long time ago. :D
     
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  4. Cybix, Oct 13, 2006

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    mine also got up and moved itself over next to the spotlight icon..
     
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  5. bousozoku, Oct 13, 2006

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    It's important for them to stay where they are so when you're completely smashed, you can still do a file transfer. :D
     
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  6. GITANAJAVA, Oct 14, 2006

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    Ditto here. The BT icon was between "Help" and the power indicator; recently it relocated itself to the Spotlight corner -- better neighborhood? Still works, though! Another Tiger anomaly, perhaps.
     
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  7. xPismo, Oct 14, 2006

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    ctrl-click will let you move it back, and I just toggle the show bluetooth icon in the system-prefrences when it dissapears. I can't really pin down why it splits when it does. Reboots usually. :confused:
     
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  8. WildCowboy, Oct 14, 2006

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    Psst...it's command-drag to move the menu items. :)
     
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  9. cschreppel, Oct 15, 2006

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    Yeah, I was gonna say. Ctrl + click didn't work there...
     
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  10. knome, Oct 15, 2006

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    yea i've had that problem on my powerbook for for over a year at least.
     
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