Two battery indicators in menu bar??

[Dimwhit]

I've got two battery indicators in the menu bar of a MacBook here at work. See attached. If I didn't know any better, I'd say it had two batteries, but it obviously doesn't. Anyone know how to get rid of one of them?

 

[TEG]

Hold down the Apple/Command key, then click and drag the one you don't want on the menu bar off of the menu bar, is will disappear.

TEG

 

[Dimwhit]

No dice. That drags all of it (both battery symbols, and both percentage readouts). Something, somewhere, is creating a second icon and percentage readout, and nothing I've found can get rid of it.

 

[TEG]

Open up energy saver, and disable the built-in (horizontal) menu. It looks like some plug-in is causing the second.

TEG

 

[Dimwhit]

Nope. That disables both of them. Must be a third-party plugin causing this. I just have no idea which one.

 

[rfrankl]

Is one related to a battery backups possibly?

 

[Dimwhit]

Is one related to a battery backups possibly?

Nope. At least not that it should. There's isn't a battery backup for this machine, and there never has been.

 

[Dimwhit]

Is one related to a battery backups possibly?

Upon closer examination, you may be right. I found the battery.menu file in the CoreServices file. In the package contents, there is a pdf for the second icon referring to UPS battery. So now I've just got to figure out how to shut that part off.

Thanks!

 

[laidbackliam]

sounds dumb, but try logging out of your account, then logging back in. sometimes that fixes momentary lapses that the OS has for me.

 

[CaptainCanuck]

Upon closer examination, you may be right. I found the battery.menu file in the CoreServices file. In the package contents, there is a pdf for the second icon referring to UPS battery. So now I've just got to figure out how to shut that part off.

Thanks!

Yeah, that's supposed to show up when the computer's attached to an UPS. You might want to open up the com.apple.menuextra.battery.plist file and see what exactly is in it. My bet is that the UPS option somehow was switched on.

This is the contents of the com.apple.menuextra.battery.plist file for my MBP:

bplist00Ò
[ShowPercentXShowTimeRNO
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