Menu bar icons have disappeared

[kleintje78]

Hallo, mac-novice again. It's full moon and therefore my mac is growing hair and howling...

A few days ago I noticed that the menu bar (along the top) icons (on the right hand side) have disappeared (the battery/wireless indicator, clock/date etc). I haven't downloaded any updates or any installed any software that could have caused this.

When I click on "show date and time" checkbox in the preferences, and then click on the lock exit and go back, the checkbox is empty and of course, no date or time is showing...

I've run the disk repair but it didn't fix that...

Please help.

 

[simbalala]

A couple recent posters had a similar problem with the icons disappearing from the Preferences Panel.

The solution was to use Onyx ( http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/11582 )

to clear the system caches. You could give that a try.

 

[kleintje78]

Thanks! I just downloaded it...only it tells me:
To run correctly it requires an admin account... BUT I am signed in as the admin account! Then it gives me applescript errors 1708 and 2753. Any ideas?

 

[simbalala]

?

Create a new admin account and try again. Maybe there's a more serious problem.

 

[kleintje78]

Thanks but no luck...any other ideas or suggestions? What might the more serious problem be?

 

[bobw]

Do you have a SIMBL plugin?

The SIMBL plugin is used by SafariStand, SafariSource, Megazoomer, PithHelmet, AcidSearch.

If you have it, remove and try Onyx again.

Make sure you have the right version of Onyx for your system;

http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs/english.html