I have just noticed my Accounts preference pane is blank.
I have tried the following.
From working back up have replaced the Accounts pane and /Lib/Prefs/com.apple.preferences.accounts.plist.
Removed com.apple.preferencepanes.cache, com.apple.systempreferences.plist, loginwindow.plist and rebooted.
But no change.
Found this advice somewhere:
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Open the NetInfo Manager in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder and look for user accounts that have no name property or for which the name property is reported as not being an UTF8 string; if you find any, create or change the name property so that it has the same value as the realname property.
Do not delete anything in the NetInfo Manager.
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However, I don't understand this.
I have 2 user accounts ' 'michael' and 'test' - the latter for moments like this!
I used 'safe boot' to get me to the log in window but only 'michael' shows. I wanted to try 'test' to see if the problem was still there.
Safe boot did not cure the problem.
Any ideas much appreciated.
Michael
I have tried the following.
From working back up have replaced the Accounts pane and /Lib/Prefs/com.apple.preferences.accounts.plist.
Removed com.apple.preferencepanes.cache, com.apple.systempreferences.plist, loginwindow.plist and rebooted.
But no change.
Found this advice somewhere:
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Open the NetInfo Manager in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder and look for user accounts that have no name property or for which the name property is reported as not being an UTF8 string; if you find any, create or change the name property so that it has the same value as the realname property.
Do not delete anything in the NetInfo Manager.
------------------------------------------------------------
However, I don't understand this.
I have 2 user accounts ' 'michael' and 'test' - the latter for moments like this!
I used 'safe boot' to get me to the log in window but only 'michael' shows. I wanted to try 'test' to see if the problem was still there.
Safe boot did not cure the problem.
Any ideas much appreciated.
Michael