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    From Merlin@Merlin@the.Court.of.King.Arthur (Merlin) to comp.sys.mac.system on Sunday, April 09, 2006 22:16:33
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    I have just completed upgrading from 10.3 to 10.4.6 on a PowerBook G4 by
    doing a clean install and then using the migration assistant to
    reinstall everything else from a clone on a FW drive.

    So far everything seems to be working fine with the exception of the
    menu bar icon for Spotlight. Clicking on it has no effect. The
    space-apple combination causes the icon to reverse its colours but no
    menu appears. alt-apple-space works fine, as does Spotlight itself.

    This is clearly not a significant limitation but I would like to
    understand what might be causing the problem as it might indicate that something else won't work which I have yet to find.

    Any ideas please?

    Thanks

    Merl
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  • From Merlin@Merlin@the.Court.of.King.Arthur (Merlin) to comp.sys.mac.system on Monday, April 10, 2006 09:50:09
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    Merlin <Merlin@the.Court.of.King.Arthur> wrote:

    I have just completed upgrading from 10.3 to 10.4.6 on a PowerBook G4 by doing a clean install and then using the migration assistant to
    reinstall everything else from a clone on a FW drive.

    So far everything seems to be working fine with the exception of the
    menu bar icon for Spotlight. Clicking on it has no effect. The
    space-apple combination causes the icon to reverse its colours but no
    menu appears. alt-apple-space works fine, as does Spotlight itself.

    This is clearly not a significant limitation but I would like to
    understand what might be causing the problem as it might indicate that something else won't work which I have yet to find.

    Any ideas please?

    I know, I know, it's bad manners to follow up on your own post, but this
    is in the hope of helping others - that's my excuse anyway <grin>

    I noted a post with the same problem about 4 months ago with no
    confirmed solution.

    This morning I deleted two files and did a restart - bingo! Of course
    it may yet go wrong but for the moment that seems to have fixed it.
    Dragging the HD to the privacy pane and out again did not fix the
    problem.

    The two files were:

    Spotlight.prefPane
    com.apple.spotlight.plist

    Hope this helps!

    Merl


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  • From Gnarlodious@gnarlodious@yahoo.com to comp.sys.mac.system on Monday, April 10, 2006 13:17:51
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    Entity Merlin uttered this profundity:

    This morning I deleted two files and did a restart - bingo! Of course
    it may yet go wrong but for the moment that seems to have fixed it.
    Dragging the HD to the privacy pane and out again did not fix the
    problem.

    The two files were:

    Spotlight.prefPane
    com.apple.spotlight.plist

    Normally one does a "Repair Permissions" t fix this kind of problem.

    -- Gnarlie

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