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Raised this in another NG, just one 'no problem here' response.

I upgraded my G4 Quicksilver from 10.4.5 to 10.4.6 via
Apple/Support/Downloads and all went well. Did the Repair Permissions
before and after.

Now, in my System Preferences, there is no CDs & DVDs icon in the
Hardware section. The local Apple store says they have it in their
machines, never heard of such a thing, etc etc. No idea, either, on
what to do.

I burned a test CD, got a box asking what to open, chose Finder, and
burned a CD with a couple of JPEGs from my iPhoto. Worked fine.

So, did Apple drop the CDs & DVDs from System Prefs? If not, should I
try to do anything to get it back in there? Copy the preference from
another machine with 10.4.5?

Thanx,

--
Jim from Hilton Head
Remove the obvious to email me direct
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Jim wrote:

Raised this in another NG, just one 'no problem here' response.

I upgraded my G4 Quicksilver from 10.4.5 to 10.4.6 via Apple/Support/Downloads and all went well. Did the Repair Permissions before and after.

Now, in my System Preferences, there is no CDs & DVDs icon in the
Hardware section. The local Apple store says they have it in their machines, never heard of such a thing, etc etc. No idea, either, on
what to do.

I burned a test CD, got a box asking what to open, chose Finder, and
burned a CD with a couple of JPEGs from my iPhoto. Worked fine.

So, did Apple drop the CDs & DVDs from System Prefs? If not, should I
try to do anything to get it back in there? Copy the preference from another machine with 10.4.5?

You already asked this on comp.sys.mac.apps, right? Seems to me this is limited to your machine right now. Hint: since all the prefs are little applets, see if the one that corresponds with that particular applet is
on disk somewhere.

Should be /System/Library/PreferencePanes/DigiHubDiscs.prefPane

Does this exist? Does it contain anything? What about the usual voodoo
for Preferences, which is to move the corresponding com.apple.systempreferences.plist out of the way and restart?
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In article <YYvZf.17422$43.7289@nnrp.ca.mci.com!nnrp1.uunet.ca>,
"void * clvrmnky()" <clvrmnky.invalid@hotmail.com.invalid> wrote:

Jim wrote:

Raised this in another NG, just one 'no problem here' response.

I upgraded my G4 Quicksilver from 10.4.5 to 10.4.6 via Apple/Support/Downloads and all went well. Did the Repair Permissions before and after.

Now, in my System Preferences, there is no CDs & DVDs icon in the
Hardware section. The local Apple store says they have it in their machines, never heard of such a thing, etc etc. No idea, either, on
what to do.

I burned a test CD, got a box asking what to open, chose Finder, and burned a CD with a couple of JPEGs from my iPhoto. Worked fine.

So, did Apple drop the CDs & DVDs from System Prefs? If not, should I
try to do anything to get it back in there? Copy the preference from another machine with 10.4.5?

You already asked this on comp.sys.mac.apps, right? Seems to me this is limited to your machine right now. Hint: since all the prefs are little applets, see if the one that corresponds with that particular applet is
on disk somewhere.

Should be /System/Library/PreferencePanes/DigiHubDiscs.prefPane

Not there (just Opera under PrefPanes); did a Find on DigiHubDiscs:
nothing anywhere.

Does this exist? Does it contain anything? What about the usual voodoo
for Preferences, which is to move the corresponding com.apple.systempreferences.plist out of the way and restart?

Put the .plist in the Trash, restarted; new one added.

Any other thoughts? How about copying the DigiHub pref pane from
another computer: eMac with 10.4.5???

This one's really bugging me!

Thanks

--
Jim from Hilton Head
Remove the obvious to email me direct
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In article <YYvZf.17422$43.7289@nnrp.ca.mci.com!nnrp1.uunet.ca>,
"void * clvrmnky()" <clvrmnky.invalid@hotmail.com.invalid> wrote:

You already asked this on comp.sys.mac.apps, right?

Yeah, and he didn't wait very long before apparently giving up. To the
OP: message propagation takes a bit. Then it takes time for people to
read your article, and bother to reply. Then THEIR message has to
propagate to YOU. Be patient.

--
We are the music makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams.
from "Ode", Arthur O'Shaughnessy
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Jim wrote:

In article <YYvZf.17422$43.7289@nnrp.ca.mci.com!nnrp1.uunet.ca>,
"void * clvrmnky()" <clvrmnky.invalid@hotmail.com.invalid> wrote:

Jim wrote:

Raised this in another NG, just one 'no problem here' response.

I upgraded my G4 Quicksilver from 10.4.5 to 10.4.6 via
Apple/Support/Downloads and all went well. Did the Repair Permissions
before and after.

Now, in my System Preferences, there is no CDs & DVDs icon in the
Hardware section. The local Apple store says they have it in their
machines, never heard of such a thing, etc etc. No idea, either, on
what to do.

I burned a test CD, got a box asking what to open, chose Finder, and
burned a CD with a couple of JPEGs from my iPhoto. Worked fine.

So, did Apple drop the CDs & DVDs from System Prefs? If not, should I
try to do anything to get it back in there? Copy the preference from
another machine with 10.4.5?

You already asked this on comp.sys.mac.apps, right? Seems to me this is
limited to your machine right now. Hint: since all the prefs are little
applets, see if the one that corresponds with that particular applet is
on disk somewhere.

Should be /System/Library/PreferencePanes/DigiHubDiscs.prefPane

Not there (just Opera under PrefPanes); did a Find on DigiHubDiscs:
nothing anywhere.

Does this exist? Does it contain anything? What about the usual voodoo
for Preferences, which is to move the corresponding
com.apple.systempreferences.plist out of the way and restart?

Put the .plist in the Trash, restarted; new one added.

Any other thoughts? How about copying the DigiHub pref pane from
another computer: eMac with 10.4.5???

This one's really bugging me!

As someone suggested in your other post, this *might* be hardware
related. I find it hard to believe that this preference would depend on
the existence of (say) a combo DVD/CD drive, but who knows. Actually,
the G4 here at work is just a CD and CD burner, and I have all
preference pane stuff.

Seems like you are not the only one who has seen things like this: <http://forums.osxfaq.com/viewtopic.php?t=3694&highlight=&sid=d2fcf2fbb30879fc5e9d4cc6ae37076f>

See if any of the advice in there helps. The fact that you are missing
these resources is interesting, to say the least.

I guess you can try to grab DigiHubDiscs.prefPane from your installation
media with something like Pacifist. It _may_ have been updated by a subsequent update, so if you have a 10.4.6 (or close) era package, it
may be worth checking the dates and checksums (i.e., "sum -r") on the
contents to see if they are the same.
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In article <jimmi3REMOVE-011518.13144607042006@news.isp.giganews.com>,
Jim <jimmi3REMOVE@adelphia.net> wrote:

Put the .plist in the Trash, restarted; new one added.

Any other thoughts? How about copying the DigiHub pref pane from
another computer: eMac with 10.4.5???

This one's really bugging me!

Thanks

Run the combo updater again?

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/macosx1046comboforppc.html

Steve
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In article <jimmi3REMOVE-011518.13144607042006@news.isp.giganews.com>,
Jim <jimmi3REMOVE@adelphia.net> wrote:

In article <YYvZf.17422$43.7289@nnrp.ca.mci.com!nnrp1.uunet.ca>,
"void * clvrmnky()" <clvrmnky.invalid@hotmail.com.invalid> wrote:

Jim wrote:

Raised this in another NG, just one 'no problem here' response.

I upgraded my G4 Quicksilver from 10.4.5 to 10.4.6 via Apple/Support/Downloads and all went well. Did the Repair Permissions before and after.

Now, in my System Preferences, there is no CDs & DVDs icon in the Hardware section. The local Apple store says they have it in their machines, never heard of such a thing, etc etc. No idea, either, on what to do.

I burned a test CD, got a box asking what to open, chose Finder, and burned a CD with a couple of JPEGs from my iPhoto. Worked fine.

So, did Apple drop the CDs & DVDs from System Prefs? If not, should I try to do anything to get it back in there? Copy the preference from another machine with 10.4.5?

You already asked this on comp.sys.mac.apps, right? Seems to me this is limited to your machine right now. Hint: since all the prefs are little applets, see if the one that corresponds with that particular applet is
on disk somewhere.

Should be /System/Library/PreferencePanes/DigiHubDiscs.prefPane

Not there (just Opera under PrefPanes); did a Find on DigiHubDiscs:
nothing anywhere.

Does this exist? Does it contain anything? What about the usual voodoo for Preferences, which is to move the corresponding com.apple.systempreferences.plist out of the way and restart?

Put the .plist in the Trash, restarted; new one added.

Any other thoughts? How about copying the DigiHub pref pane from
another computer: eMac with 10.4.5???

This one's really bugging me!

Thanks

Are you sure you're looking in the right folder? Because there is a
whole set of ".prefPane"s in there:

Internet.prefPane
Keyboard.prefPane
UniversalAccessPref.prefPane
Classic.prefPane
Bluetooth.prefPane
Spotlight.prefPane
ScreenSaver.prefPane
PrintAndFax.prefPane
SharingPref.prefPane
Security.prefPane
Expose.prefPane
Mac.prefPane
Localization.prefPane
Network.prefPane
Ink.prefPane
StartupDisk.prefPane
Appearance.prefPane
SoftwareUpdate.prefPane
DesktopScreenEffectsPref.prefPane
Accounts.prefPane
Speech.prefPane
Displays.prefPane
Sound.prefPane
DigiHubDiscs.prefPane
EnergySaver.prefPane
Dock.prefPane
DateAndTime.prefPane
QuickTime.prefPane

There are "PreferencePane" folders in /System/Library (OS preference
panes only) /Library (machine-wide third-party preference panes) and /User/<username>/Library (user specific preference panes).

What you might need to do is to delete the preference panes cache, which should be in
/User/<username>/Library/Caches/com.apple.preferencepanes.cache.

--
Alan Baker
Vancouver, British Columbia
"If you raise the ceiling 4 feet, move the fireplace from that wall
to that wall, you'll still only get the full stereophonic effect
if you sit in the bottom of that cupboard."
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