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Wando64

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I get an error "Preferences error" whenever I try to open iCloud preferences from Spotlight, however it works fine if I go to the system preferences panel and I open it from there.
I can see from Google I am not the only one with this problem, but I could not find a fix.
Is this just one of those things that I should ignore?
Thanks
 
Hmm... after seeing your post here, I just tried it and see the same thing. I guess it is just a El Capitan bug. It does not seem to be hurting anything.

What is funny though is I can launch that pref pane from Alfred launcher and I don't get the error message.

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Hmm... after seeing your post here, I just tried it and see the same thing. I guess it is just a El Capitan bug. It does not seem to be hurting anything.

What is funny though is I can launch that pref pane from Alfred launcher and I don't get the error message.

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Thanks for trying it out.
At least I know there is nothing wrong with my setup.
 
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Coincidentally I had a similar issue yesterday where it said I was already logged in after I logged out.

Reconnecting to Wifi helped me.
 
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