Mac OS X - Jaguar problem

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Recently, I noticed that under the system preferences that I am now missing my "Internet" icon. I recall having access to this in the past. This is the icon under the heading Internet & Network which should lead me to where I can make adjustments to my .Mac account. The only icons under Internet & Network are Network, Quicktime and Sharing. I will need to access this area if I expect the iSync to work with my address book and the .mac account.

I would have used the help section in the .mac account by now, exepct that I have the limited free version of the account, so no help is available. I have re-installed the OS on my eMac to no effect.

Any advice?
 
Ubernerd said:
Recently, I noticed that under the system preferences that I am now missing my "Internet" icon. I recall having access to this in the past. This is the icon under the heading Internet & Network which should lead me to where I can make adjustments to my .Mac account. The only icons under Internet & Network are Network, Quicktime and Sharing. I will need to access this area if I expect the iSync to work with my address book and the .mac account.

I would have used the help section in the .mac account by now, exepct that I have the limited free version of the account, so no help is available. I have re-installed the OS on my eMac to no effect.

Any advice?
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In panther, settings for defualt web browser was moved into the browsers prefrences, instead of it's orginal spot... have you tried looking in the iSync settings?
 
Welcome Ubernerd!

I've had a similar problem before, and it was directly related to me fooling around with a piece of software that monkeyed around with the system.

In my case, I lost my Accounts icon.

Have you installed anything that patches the system?..
 
Ubernerd said:
Recently, I noticed that under the system preferences that I am now missing my "Internet" icon.
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Trash the file ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.preferencepanes.cache then restart System Preferences.
 
dagaz said:
Trash the file ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.preferencepanes.cache then restart System Preferences.
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Hmn. I don't seem to have anything quite like that in my Cashes directory. Should I trash the other files in there?
 
octane said:
Welcome Ubernerd!

I've had a similar problem before, and it was directly related to me fooling around with a piece of software that monkeyed around with the system.

In my case, I lost my Accounts icon.

Have you installed anything that patches the system?..
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I've downloaded and installed all that Apple will let me. I'm at 10.2.8 right now.
 
I meant something other than Apple software.

I'm guessing you haven't.

You might want to try moving the ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist to the desktop and re-launching System Preferences and see if that changes anything...
 
dagaz said:
Trash the file ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.preferencepanes.cache then restart System Preferences.
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The ~ signifies that its the library at the user level, not the root level, i.e. go to Home > Library > Caches and you should see the mentioned file.
 
dagaz said:
The ~ signifies that its the library at the user level, not the root level, i.e. go to Home > Library > Caches and you should see the mentioned file.
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Oh, wow. How embarasing. It works now. Thanks!
 
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