Weird problem in System Preferences...

[The General]

Anyone know how to fix this?

 

[TheAnswer]

Here you go:

Originally Posted by WildCowboy
Close System Preferences, then look for a file called "com.apple.preferencepanes.cache"...it's in <your user directory>/Library/Caches. Drag it to your Desktop and then try opening System Preferences again. If all looks well, you can go ahead and trash the file you dragged to your Desktop.

 

[The General]

Wow, that was quick and worked! I didn't search for this one, sorry if this has been posted time and time again. I don't know what I was thinking.

Thanks

 

[After G]

Someone else had this problem, but with the "Sharing" button instead.

 

[EricNau]

Someone else had this problem, but with the "Sharing" button instead.

...Along with about 500 other people (or at least it seems like that many).

 

[TheAnswer]

Actually, it seems to move around more than that...usually in the center of the window, though...it happens so often though and is a hard thing to search the forum for (I mean how do you describe a thing like that?) that I created a text clipping of the solution and keep it handy for times like this.

 

[EricNau]

Actually, it seems to move around more than that...usually in the center of the window, though...it happens so often though and is a hard thing to search the forum for (I mean how do you describe a thing like that?) that I created a text clipping of the solution and keep it handy for times like this.

Yeah, I didn't mean to imply that it's always in the same place, just that it is a very common problem.

 

[TheAnswer]

Yeah, I didn't mean to imply that it's always in the same place, just that it is a very common problem.

That was actually my response to After G's post...I guess I probably should have quoted.

Now you know why I have to keep a text clipping handy...I type too damn slow.

 

[The General]

Well, I have another visual problem.

The tabs are misaligned up 1 pixel.

 

[The General]

I am using it right now in a another user account I created and it looks fine, but when I go back to my account it's messed up still.

 

[EricNau]

You're not alone, but unfortunately, they never found a solution.

 

[The General]

Here's what I figured out:

I made a new user account and deleted my old one, and before I copied all the files in Library/Preferences/* the tabs looked fine, then once I replaced them it got screwed up again. Then I moved them all back out and the problem continued. It's got to be a problem with one of those files.

 

[The General]

Okay I found my solution, I don't know if it will work for anyone else though, but I'll post it anyway.

I went through all the files moving them to the Desktop and back in ~/Library/Preferences, but it seemed to be a combination of files that were screwing it up. So I moved all of them, and took only the ones I knew I needed. The tabs are fixed, but I had to fix all the settings I had in Safari, but since my computer is so new I didn't have that much stuff to change.