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On my 1.5GHz, 17" G4 PowerBook, the bluetooth thingie at the top right
of the thing has a wavey line through it and it says "Bluetooth Not
Available" when I click on it.

I think I recall that I used to have a Bluetooth "System Preferences"
panel, but I can't seem to find it anywhere now. Presumably that means
that some file(s) related to Bluetooth got zapped.

Do any of you know what file(s) I would need to restore from backups to re-enable Bluetooth? Presumably some files in Library?

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On 2006-04-09 17:57:42 +0300, Gary Morrison <mr88cet@texas.net> said:

On my 1.5GHz, 17" G4 PowerBook, the bluetooth thingie at the top right
of the thing has a wavey line through it and it says "Bluetooth Not Available" when I click on it.

I think I recall that I used to have a Bluetooth "System Preferences"
panel, but I can't seem to find it anywhere now. Presumably that means
that some file(s) related to Bluetooth got zapped.

Do any of you know what file(s) I would need to restore from backups to re-enable Bluetooth? Presumably some files in Library?

If it is "Panther" (10.3.x) give a shot to http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=120276 . As it uses
"Installer" architecture naturally , it won't replace new files with
old files thus not breaking anything.

For Tiger (10.4.x) I suggest getting latest "combo update" and (re)applying it.

Ilgaz

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Ilgaz Ocal wrote:

For Tiger (10.4.x) I suggest getting latest "combo update" and
(re)applying it.

OK, so then the updaters will only contain new or changed files, but
things that did not change from the previous release? (I'm supposing
that the Bluetooth stuff may not have changed from the previous version
to the current version, not that I know either way.)

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In article <Gh9_f.9598$_26.2745@tornado.texas.rr.com>,
Gary Morrison <mr88cet@texas.net> wrote:

On my 1.5GHz, 17" G4 PowerBook, the bluetooth thingie at the top right
of the thing has a wavey line through it and it says "Bluetooth Not Available" when I click on it.

I think I recall that I used to have a Bluetooth "System Preferences"
panel, but I can't seem to find it anywhere now. Presumably that means
that some file(s) related to Bluetooth got zapped.

Do any of you know what file(s) I would need to restore from backups to re-enable Bluetooth? Presumably some files in Library?

You're not booted in Single User mode, are you? (Cmd-S at startup, I
think) I found Bluetooth doesn't work right in that mode.
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Mat Cvetic wrote:

You're not booted in Single User mode, are you? (Cmd-S at startup, I
think) I found Bluetooth doesn't work right in that mode.

That's an interesting though. I'm certainly not depressing any keys on boot-up.

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On 2006-04-10 00:39:46 +0300, Gary Morrison <mr88cet@texas.net> said:

Ilgaz Ocal wrote:

For Tiger (10.4.x) I suggest getting latest "combo update" and (re)applying it.

OK, so then the updaters will only contain new or changed files, but
things that did not change from the previous release? (I'm supposing
that the Bluetooth stuff may not have changed from the previous version
to the current version, not that I know either way.)

I wanted to save you from re installing OS X (and perhaps it won't work
again) :) It is the usual way for me to fix things, they generally have updated versions for all files between 10.4.0 and 10.4.6

You may try the newly shipped Pacifist 2.0 to try to restore bluetooth frameworks etc. Thing is, it is not "mail.app", it is like a layer on
OS X so may be hard to find what is needed.

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/12743

Don't forget to keep "combo update" handy, you need to run it after
restoring files.

Ilgaz

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