10.4.6 Bluetooth Icon Move

Did anyone else have their Bluetooth icon on the Menu Bar move from between Airport and iChat (if you have it enabled) to between the username and spotlight?
Because mine did. And now its ******* me off that its moved.

You know you can move it yourself, right? Hold down the command key and click and drag on the icon in the menubar you want to move.

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Choose Go to Folder from the Finder's Go menu and enter ~/Library/Preferences/ as the folder's location. Once this folder has appeared, move the item named com.apple.systemuiserver.plist to another folder, log out, and log back in.
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Hello, sorry my poor english.
I've installed Mac OS X 10.4.7 update and everything seems to be working fine.
However I've noticed one strange thing, on the Apple bar at the top of the screen, if I look at the icons on the left of the bar, the Bluetooth icon has moved from left-side of the volume icon to the left-side of the spotlight icon.
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Hi,
I've found that I can move the top menu bar icons by holding down the Command/Apple key and click-dragging the icons to wherever I like.
BTW, your English is just fine...
Hope that helps,
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Yeah, i have no idea what category the "problem" (more cosmetic than function-related) belongs... I have somehow managed to move my bluetooth icon from the left side of the time to the right side of the time (between spotlight and clock)...
A picture:
http://thor.webfront.dk/files/img1172752116797.png
I've talked to a rather experienced mac using friend of mine, and he has no clue of how this could have happened... According to him, it should be impossible - but I've done it anyway...
Anyone know how to move the icon back on the left side of the clock?
Edit:
What is that row of icons called, anyways? Process Bar, like in windows?
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Greetings:
I have just acquired an older mini mac (2006 1.66 ghz core 2 duo) Anyway, it had Tiger 10.4 on it and the Bluetooth worked for the wireless Apple keyboard and mouse. I upgraded to Snow Leopard and everything works fine - everything except Bluetooth.
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Under Finder, Utilities, I found Bluetooth File Exchange but the message I got was that I had to connect a Bluetooth device to my computer.
I have to admit that I have no idea what's going on here. I am hoping to avert the need to try another complete re-install of Snow Leopard.
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Puzzled is a polite word for it.
Thanks Barry - I found the file and trie to send it to trash. The response: (This item cannot be trashed as it it owned by the system).
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However, the Bluetooth icon is still missing from the System Preferences window - you know, between "network" and "sharing".
You note that you reckon the issue is not software based and you may be correct. The reason that I wonder about that though, is that before I installed Snow Leopard, the keyboard and mouse both paired with the box under the Tiger 10.4. That leads me to conclude that hardware is functional and that there is some screwy little bit of software that is not cooperating.
If I could delete Bluetooth from the system and re-install a fresh version, that might help. Or, is there a way I can use the Snow Leopard install disc and only load in Bluetooth?
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Bluetooth is neither detected nor working. In the system preferences under BLUETOOTH header it says "No information found". Bluetooth icon is not appearing on desktop either. Please help.

Yes....It happens all the time. I also erased my HD and installed Snow Leopard but with no success. Tried lots of REBOOTING but nothing worked for me.As I have already installed the new OSX I think there is no need to go through the below procedure. What do you suggest?
Before you go through the ritual of reinstalling the entire system just try to do a "factory reset" of your bluetooth environment. To do this you need to run the Bluetooth Explorer which is a utility installed as part of XCode.
1. Launch Bluetooth Explorer.
2. Select the "Modify Software & Device Configuration" from the Utilities menu.
3. Keep the first 4 checkboxes checked (one will say "Full factory reset").
4. Click "Perform actions" button (lower right of window).
5. Reboot (possibly the Reboot NOW button will work, if not just do a normal reboot).
Hopefully that will clear your problem(s) so you can re-pair your bluetooth devices.
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Hmmm, sometimes!?
At this point I think you should get Applejack...
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19596
After installing, reboot holding down CMD+s, (+s), then when the DOS like prompt shows, type in...
applejack AUTO
Then let it do all 5 of it's things.
At least it'll eliminate some questions if it doesn't fix it.
The 5 things it does are...
Correct any Disk problems.
Repair Permissions.
Clear out Cache Files.
Repair/check several plist files.
Dump the VM files for a fresh start.
First reboot will be slower, sometimes 2 or 3 restarts will be required for full benefit... my guess is files relying upon other files relying upon other files!
We have more if that doesn't work.

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