Bluetooth crashed menu bar

I recently opened up my powerbook and turned on my bluetooth mighty mouse. Normally they find each other and away we go. This time it didn't work, and the menu bar (with the time, volume control, bluetooth, vpn etc. icons) hung. Spotlight and my SMART reporter app stayed working OK.
I force-quitted the SystemUIServer process, which manages the menu bar, but it was not able to recover.
I know the problem is with bluetooth, so I was wondering if there was a way of deactivating and reactivating it from the command line, without restarting the machine. I can't use System Preferences, because anything bluetooth there just hangs (there's no Bluetooth preference item, but Keyboard and Mouse has a Bluetooth tab which doesn't work). When I look at /System/Library/PreferencePanes, Finder is sometimes unable to report the file info for the Bluetooth.prefPane. There's also nothing in /Library/Preferences that references Bluetooth, though I thought there was supposed to be a preference there (to trash when things go wrong).
I'm reluctant to restart because I run simulations over a number of days that won't recover through a restart, and I really don't want to lose a couple of days hard work on my powerbook's part. Any ideas?

Open the Terminal application in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder, and run the following:
defaults read com.apple.systemuiserver menuExtras
which will produce a block of text. Copy this text, paste it into TextEdit, and remove the line relating to Bluetooth from the list. Next, replace read with write in the command, append the modified text to it, and put the completed command into the Terminal. Log out and back in, or quit the SystemUIServer process again.
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Then comes iOS7 and XCode 5 will only run on ML so now I'm forced to try upgrading Lion to ML again.
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-> revert to Lion
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I set up new account and for a while it worked. I was able to deploy to iPad to running iOS7. Yay. I thought it was ok.
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Uninstalled them, but no joy, started acting up.
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I would really appreciate any guidance as to how I can get this working. It is extremely frustrating and time wasting, and I have no faith in OSX ML as a stable platform for development. I don't want to buy another machine, not just the expense, but also from trawling the threads people with current and new machines are also reporting similar problems to me with no resolution that I can see. Whatver ever happened to "Graceful Degradation" not "System crashes with no help whatsover"!!
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ty in advan
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kextstat -kl | awk '!/com\.apple/{printf "%s %s\n", $6, $7}'
com.Cycling74.driver.Soundflower (1.6.6)
tc.tctechnologies.driver.TCNear (4.1.3
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Repeat with this line:
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tc.tctechnologies.daemon.TCNear
com.leapmotion.leapd
com.google.keystone.daemon
com.cocoatech.pathfinder.SMFHelper7
com.bombich.ccc.scheduledtask.A0433445-0A27-4623-AFF0-DC15FB8AF694
com.bombich.ccc.scheduledtask.1F3921EC-97B2-4312-941C-0966704A918F
com.bombich.ccc
com.bjango.istatmenusdaemon
com.adobe.fpsaud
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com.leapmotion.Leap-Motion
com.google.keystone.system.agent
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/Library/Extensions:
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AdobePDFViewer.plugin
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Flash Player.plugin
JavaAppletPlugin.plugin
Quartz Composer.webplugin
QuickTime Plugin.plugin
Unity Web Player.plugin
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flashplayer.xpt
googletalkbrowserplugin.plugin
npgtpo3dautoplugin.plugin
nsIQTScriptablePlugin.xpt
o1dbrowserplugin.plugin
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/Library/LaunchAgents:
com.bjango.istatmenusagent.plist
com.google.keystone.agent.plist
com.leapmotion.Leap-Motion.plist
/Library/LaunchDaemons:
com.adobe.fpsaud.plist
com.apple.remotepairtool.plist
com.bjango.istatmenusdaemon.plist
com.bombich.ccc.plist
com.bombich.ccc.scheduledtask.1F3921EC-97B2-4312-941C-0966704A918F.plist
com.bombich.ccc.scheduledtask.A0433445-0A27-4623-AFF0-DC15FB8AF694.plist
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com.google.keystone.daemon.plist
com.leapmotion.leapd.plist
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com.cocoatech.pathfinder.SMFHelper7
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AppleIntermediateCodec.component
AppleMPEG2Codec.component
CanonMJPEGAVI.component
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CanonText.component
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/etc/mach_init_per_user.d:
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SkypeABDialer.bundle
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VMware Fusion Helper
Android File Transfer Agent
ZOOM Edit&Share startup
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Internet Plug-ins:
AdobePDFViewer.plugin
AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin
Flash Player.plugin
FlashPlayer-10.6.plugin
googletalkbrowserplugin.plugin
JavaAppletPlugin.plugin
npgtpo3dautoplugin.plugin
o1dbrowserplugin.plugin
QuickTime Plugin.plugin
Unity Web Player.plugin
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143 MB Evernote
127 MB WebProcess
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Basic situation is this. I was running 10.5.3 perfectly well on my iBook G4 1.33ghz/1gb RAM. One day it didn't want to wake from sleep so I had to hold the power button down to power it off then back on.
This is a big NONO. You essentially crashed your OS by forcing it off while it was running. Yes, sleeping is running.
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It started up as normal except that the menu bar had become translucent again (in 10.5.3 I had chosen to turn that stupid 'feature' off). But now the tick box is missing from the Desktop & Screen Saver pref pane, and even re-installing Leopard and updating to 10.5.3 then 10.5.4 from scratch has not bought the box back. Any idea what on earth has happened and how I can fix this? It passes the Hardware Test CD perfectly. It's as though it now thinks my Mac isn't capable of supporting that setting (when I add a Dashboard widget the ripple still happens for example).
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Run the DU and repair your HD and permissions.
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I tried deleting the com.apple.systemuiserver.plist file in my ~Library/Preferences Folder, and the com.apple.systemuiserver.000a9597ad54.plist file in my ~Library/Preferences/ByHost Folder and restarting but this didn't fix it.

Hi Timothy,
Did you try to trash the com.apple.MenBarClock.plist
you can find it in >Home>Libray>Preferences
Good luck ...
Dimaxum

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After updating OS X 10.8.5, bluetooth is not available in the menu bar.
The Magic Mouse is recognized and working but the bluetooth mouse functions do not work.
I have downloaded and installed 10.8.5 combo but it does not help.
Menu bar - System Preferences/ there is no bluetooth item
I restarted with cmd + alt + P + R it doesn't help.

Did you try the suggestions from your other post on this?

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Hi(Bonjour)!
That's the way FCE (and FCP by the way) works since his first version.
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