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I just noticed that I no longer have an icon for DISPLAY in my System Preferences. Anyone know how to get that back? I have not looked for
it in a while so I don't exactly know when it disappeared. I now am on
OS X 10.2.6

Any thoughts would be most welcomed.

MacFan

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On Thu, 03 Jul 2003 02:30:11 GMT, MacFan wrote:

I just noticed that I no longer have an icon for DISPLAY in my System Preferences. Anyone know how to get that back? I have not looked for
it in a while so I don't exactly know when it disappeared. I now am on
OS X 10.2.6

Any thoughts would be most welcomed.

You might look to see whether you have a /System/Library/PreferencePanes/Displays.prefPane on your machine, and
possibly copy one from elsewhere if it's missing or corrupt.

Although the suffix is ".prefPane" rather than ".app", it seems to have
the same sort of structure as an .app. That is, it's a package with a
Contents directory containing an info.plist, a version.plist, and subdirectories called MacOS and Resources.

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Found all of that. If I double click on the folder it appears to
launch it but nothing opens. I can open the package and the folders do
appear. Have to try coping folder from another computer and
replacing, see what happens.

Thanks for the lead.
Mac Fan


In article <be0g2j$6ep$3@mozo.cc.purdue.edu>, Dave Seaman <dseaman@no.such.host> wrote:

On Thu, 03 Jul 2003 02:30:11 GMT, MacFan wrote:

I just noticed that I no longer have an icon for DISPLAY in my System Preferences. Anyone know how to get that back? I have not looked for
it in a while so I don't exactly know when it disappeared. I now am on
OS X 10.2.6

Any thoughts would be most welcomed.

You might look to see whether you have a /System/Library/PreferencePanes/Displays.prefPane on your machine, and possibly copy one from elsewhere if it's missing or corrupt.

Although the suffix is ".prefPane" rather than ".app", it seems to have
the same sort of structure as an .app. That is, it's a package with a Contents directory containing an info.plist, a version.plist, and subdirectories called MacOS and Resources.

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I have a second account on my computer and the Display Preference works
fine.

Apparently on the 'missing' account, I do have the Display in the menu
bar across the top but when I go to 'Open Gisplays' Nothing opens.

Very Strange



In article <030720030410102301%t2allat@hotmail.dotcom>, MacFan <t2allat@hotmail.dotcom> wrote:

Found all of that. If I double click on the folder it appears to
launch it but nothing opens. I can open the package and the folders do appear. Have to try coping folder from another computer and
replacing, see what happens.

Thanks for the lead.
Mac Fan

In article <be0g2j$6ep$3@mozo.cc.purdue.edu>, Dave Seaman <dseaman@no.such.host> wrote:

On Thu, 03 Jul 2003 02:30:11 GMT, MacFan wrote:

I just noticed that I no longer have an icon for DISPLAY in my System Preferences. Anyone know how to get that back? I have not looked for
it in a while so I don't exactly know when it disappeared. I now am on OS X 10.2.6

Any thoughts would be most welcomed.

You might look to see whether you have a /System/Library/PreferencePanes/Displays.prefPane on your machine, and possibly copy one from elsewhere if it's missing or corrupt.

Although the suffix is ".prefPane" rather than ".app", it seems to have
the same sort of structure as an .app. That is, it's a package with a Contents directory containing an info.plist, a version.plist, and subdirectories called MacOS and Resources.

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On Thu, 03 Jul 2003 08:49:03 GMT, MacFan wrote:

I have a second account on my computer and the Display Preference works
fine.

Apparently on the 'missing' account, I do have the Display in the menu
bar across the top but when I go to 'Open Gisplays' Nothing opens.

Very Strange

On that case you should try renaming your Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist on the account
where it doesn't work, and see whether allowing a new one to be generated
will fix the problem. Retrieving an old copy of this file from backup
may also be useful.

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Thanks Dave for all your help. You got me thinking and were on the
right track. It turns out that it is a file in the users cache file
called com.apple.preferencepanes.cache in Library/Caches

Once this was trashed and the System Preferences restarted the missing
icon reappeared.

Thanks for taking the time to respond. It was much appreciated. All is
happy in MacWorld!!!!



In article <be1b3b$g1e$1@mozo.cc.purdue.edu>, Dave Seaman <dseaman@no.such.host> wrote:

On Thu, 03 Jul 2003 08:49:03 GMT, MacFan wrote:

I have a second account on my computer and the Display Preference works fine.

Apparently on the 'missing' account, I do have the Display in the menu
bar across the top but when I go to 'Open Gisplays' Nothing opens.

Very Strange

On that case you should try renaming your Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist on the account
where it doesn't work, and see whether allowing a new one to be generated will fix the problem. Retrieving an old copy of this file from backup
may also be useful.

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