HELP! Question Mark?????

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pamoil97

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Hello all, fellow mac lovers,
I have recently invested in a imac g5 with no regret! But in trying to install my thomson speedtouch 330 modem, I had to change settings in my PREFERENCES SYSTEMS which now will NOT open up and has a question mark over it! What can I do?:confused:
 
Try to create a new user, that account should have a fresh set of preferences, and it should work.

(I don't know if you can then copy those preferences to your main account, but I wouldn't advice it..)
 
eric2006 said:
Try to create a new user, that account should have a fresh set of preferences, and it should work.

(I don't know if you can then copy those preferences to your main account, but I wouldn't advice it..)
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Unless the Application is missing....then no amount of new users will bring that back. If it's been moved, it needs to be put back. Otherwise, one could beg a nice worker at the Apple store for a disc with System Preferences on it. Or back up & run the restore disc that came with the system.
 
If you delete the system preferences files, won't OS X make new ones on a reboot? Or am I just completely making this up? I thought I heard something like that somewhere..
 
If you delete the System Preference preferences, OS X will replace them at login with default prefs. But the System Preferences Application itself will not be replaced.

The reason to think it's gone mising is that the submitter's SystemPreferences icon in the dock has turned into a question mark, meaning the alias has no root.
 
Well, then can't you use pacifist on the mac os x install packages, and install the system preferences application from there? I found the system preferences application under the Essentials package, and I can even drag it out of the package and onto my desktop.
 
Ok, so, Pamoil, you just need to download pacifist from here: http://www.charlessoft.com/

Install it, then put your OS X install CD in your CD drive. Start up Pacifist (it will ask you if you want to buy it, just wait a few seconds and it goes away) Click the handy "Open Mac OS X install Packages" button. It will take a minue or two for the package list to load.. once it loads up, expand the "Contents of Essentials.pkg" thing. In that, expand the "Applications" folder. In that folder, you will see the file "system preferences.app" Drag that file to the applications folder on your computer, then try to launch it. If all goes well, it should launch.
 
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