my System Preferences sometimes hangs when i open it in Snow Leopard and i have to force quit it and then reopen to use it properly.
trashing its cache seems to relieve it temporarily but it soon starts to happen again and ive tried trashing its preferences file.
Ever since I installed Snow Leopard, every so often when I try opening System Preferences, it just keeps bouncing and never opens and says it's not responding. If I force quit and reopen, it'll suddenly open on first bounce. This happened on 10.6.0 and 10.6.1.
For context, I installed SL clean on my iMac Core Duo. The only 3rd party apps in System Prefs is Backblaze, Flip4Mac, GeekTool, Growl, iStat Menus, and Perian. All are up to date.
New MacBook Pro. Created test user account for apple to debug a problem. Problem fixed, I tried to delete account, but it just hangs sating deleting account. Trying to quit fails saying System Preferences is busy. Â
Can force quit, but account is still there. Â
i lost my ssystem preferences on my macbook pro snaow leaopard. How do i get it back
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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system preferences not responding in snow leopard
Info:MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011)
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Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Whenever I need to restart my MacBook Pro, a bunch of my preferences are lost. For example, I have to drag Google Chrome back in the dock. I lose my Expose preferences, login items I've disabled still pop up. Keyboard shortcuts with Spotlight (which I keep disabled because of a program I use), get set to default. It's terrbily frustrating to have to reset all these things over and over again and I can't find the answer. Part of it is I'm not terribly saavy with computer language. I can find the Terminal and type in commands though.
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iMac (17-inch Early 2006), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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MacBook Pro (17-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.6.5)
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Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Unable to retain "short year settings" in Preferences > Language & Text > Formats. Â
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
