Bluetooth suddenly not available?

I've never had a problem before, but all of a sudden when I go to the bluetooth icon on the menu bar, it says bluetooth:not available.
Help!! I need it to work!

Trash your com.apple.bluetooth.plist in ~/Library/Preferences/ file, then shut down and reset the PMU of your macbook. Had a similar problem before.

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