Network icon has disappeared

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btoth

Person that uses a Mac
Since 10.3.3 I've noticed some odd things... like my network icon now showing, which makes it hard to click on it. =) I repaired permissions and cleaned caches. Any suggestion that may make it return?
 

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You have to wait a bit and I think it will show up, or doesn't it?
If it won't show up even after 5mins then trash the finder plist
 
Or, click on Finder Preferences, then click on the Sidebar icon, and select Network (assuming you don't mean the Network pref pane icon...) This will return the Network icon to the Sidebar.

edit: of course, I didn't actually look at your full post until after I posted :rolleyes: Deleting com.apple.finder.plist should do it, as Zammy-Sam stated...
 
Well, I gave that a shot, but didn't fix it. A reinstall of the 10.3.3 update fixed it. Thanks for the suggestions though.
 
I have the same here. It's not a big thing. Everything works fine, but from time to time it simply disappears.
 
Zammy-Sam said:
I have the same here. It's not a big thing. Everything works fine, but from time to time it simply disappears.
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Do you notice if it's just from 10.3.3? I'm curious if that is what caused it. because since then, I've also noticed that Safari has a third scroll arrow every other time I use it. (See attached image.) :rolleyes:
 

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Huh? :confused:
Does it appear all the time or just with some windows? I don't have this. Does it work as a scroll arrow? Did you ever just setup a new user account and test these issues on the fresh one?
However, I had this icon disappearance thing before as well. Don't think it has something to do with the 10.3.3 update. But it doesn't show up this way all the time. Right now it's just fine.
 
I created a Test account, everything works fine there. I think the problem is that my Network icon is no longer an alias to the Network folder (if that makes sense). However, there is no way to modify it that I can tell. Unless I could do it under root from the terminal, but if this got messed up somehow I'm sure there's other stuff going on. Like recently it seems I always have only 100MB of my 512MB free even with no apps running except the usual root level tasks and Apache. Used to always have over 250MB, at least, free... which is still not very impressive.
 
On a somewhat related topic: A while back i couldnt work out why after installing Panther I couldn't set my network cards IP address via Network Prefs, and even using ifconfig would only hold for a short time. I just found out why. It always showed it as being disconnected. It's because I'm using a crossover cable to an iMac, and if the imac isnt on, (hence, there is no link on the NIC) it simply makes that interface "down"..

This may also be the reason for the network icon disappearing (im having that happen too, didnt notice if it was there when imac was connected)
 
It just stupid 10.3.3. I did a clean install of 10.3 tonight, everything was fine. I installed the 10.3.3 "update" and now my icon is gone again. This is a very dumb bug, it leaves the "Network" unclickable and inaccessible unless I have it on the sidebar.
 
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