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Strange "hole" in my System Preferences pane
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Close System Preferences then find a file named com.apple.preferencepanes.cache in the Caches folder on your Home folder's Library and drag it to the Trash, then reopen System Preferences. Hopefully this works. 
Have you tried taking the speech Preference Pane out of HD/System/Library/PreferencePanes?
1. Quit system preferences
2. take the speech preference pane out it
3. Open system preferences again and it should not be there
4. quit system preferences again
5. re-add the speech preference pane.
Don't know if this works but you can always try...
1. Quit system preferences
2. take the speech preference pane out it
3. Open system preferences again and it should not be there
4. quit system preferences again
5. re-add the speech preference pane.
Don't know if this works but you can always try...
This happened to me on my new imac core duo a couple of days after i bought it. But after a few shutdowns a re-boots it disappeared, and hasnt shown its face since. It's about 5 months now!
mad jew said:Close System Preferences then find a file named com.apple.preferencepanes.cache in the Caches folder on your Home folder's Library and drag it to the Trash, then reopen System Preferences. Hopefully this works.
Well, cool! That worked!
Thanks!
mad jew said:Close System Preferences then find a file named com.apple.preferencepanes.cache in the Caches folder on your Home folder's Library and drag it to the Trash, then reopen System Preferences. Hopefully this works.
What, you mean he doesn't need to reinstall OSX?
That's weird, I saw the exact same thing (identical location and screwy icon) on my MPB right after setting it up. Went away on its own at some point, though I've forgotten what I did that fixed it (just rebooting a couple times, I think, or it might have been installing a new prefpane.
Since it only seems to occurr on new Macs, I wonder if that cache file isn't getting screwed up durring the setup process or something.
Since it only seems to occurr on new Macs, I wonder if that cache file isn't getting screwed up durring the setup process or something.
Argelius said:
No worries.
IJ Reilly said:What, you mean he doesn't need to reinstall OSX?
If it happens again, throw the whole machine out, buy a new one, reinstall the OS and then go to your neighbour's house and reinstall their OS too, even if it's not OSX. Better safe than sorry.
mad jew said:If it happens again, throw the whole machine out, buy a new one, reinstall the OS and then go to your neighbour's house and reinstall their OS too, even if it's not OSX. Better safe than sorry.
To be on the safe side, repair his permissions, too. Doesn't even matter if he doesn't have a computer. Repair them anyway.
i love macrumors! i just had to reply to this thread because i had this exact problem with my new macbook, so i did a search to see if anyone had this problem as well and found the solution here. most excellent!