Time and Date, Aiport, and shortcuts in Finder all disappeared

tehbehr · #1 November 7th, 2009, 01:00 PM

Hey yall,

So this past week my Time & Date disappeared in the top right corner menu as well as my airport. On top of that, the shortcuts on the leftside of Finder have disappeared as well. I've relaunched Finder, shut down my computer and restarted it, reset my PRAM, reset my PMU, hunted down and removed the suggest corrupt preference files on my account, and created a new User, and none of this has worked (I've googled the problem to see what I could do to fix it). I'm running on a 1.5 GHz PowerBook G4 running OS X 10.4.11 on it. I have no idea how to fix this, and my experience with Macs have been once one thing fails, more are likely to follow so I'd like to catch and fix this before my computer crashes. Thanks!

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earthsaver · #2 November 7th, 2009, 10:19 PM

So, the clock is set to appear according to Date & Time preferences and AirPort according to Network preferences?, and the Finder Sidebar items of desire are checked in Finder preferences? Also, is SystemUIServer running properly according to Activity Monitor?

tehbehr · #3 November 10th, 2009, 11:43 AM

SystemUIServer keeps coming on and off on the Activity Monitor. Additionally, the loginwindow keeps eating up CPU going back and forth. Plus, I can't access Internet Connect, it unexpectedly shuts down.

ora · #4 November 10th, 2009, 12:41 PM

The fact that it is the same on a new user is ominous - means it it not user plist corruption etc. First step, backup!

Next boot from the OS X disk, go to Utilities>Disk Utility and verify/repair the drive.

Then consider a reinstall I think, unless someone else has an idea. You could try archive and install first, as it keeps all your files, then if that fails I guess a blank and install.

djackmac · #5 November 10th, 2009, 01:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ora

The fact that it is the same on a new user is ominous - means it it not user plist corruption etc. First step, backup!

Next boot from the OS X disk, go to Utilities>Disk Utility and verify/repair the drive.

Then consider a reinstall I think, unless someone else has an idea. You could try archive and install first, as it keeps all your files, then if that fails I guess a blank and install.

SystemUIServer actually controls all the toolbar icons on the right where you are having the issues. I'd do a safe boot first just to see if it makes a difference then all that is left is what ora said as in either an archive & install or clean install then migrate from backup.