Right sided menu bar freezes

menu bar on upper right side freezes through to the wi-fi icon. A rolling beachball appears, while the rest of the computer appears functional.

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Top right menu bar freezes

The top right menu bar freezes, the time reamins frozen and when the mouse is put over it the spinning ball comes on and nothing responds on the menu bar. Shutting down or restart stops at the clear screen and I need to use my power button to shut down and restart?
Any one able to help me?

Try opening Activity Monitor from your Utilities folder, make sure all processes are being displayed, and then look for the SystemUIServer server and see if there is a note in red that it is not responding. If so click on it to select, then click the red Quit button at the top of the window and click Force Quit when the dialog box comes up.
If this is the problem you are having problem interactions between SystemUIServer, Spotlight and some other menu bar extra. Remove all menu bar extras (you can hold down the command key, then click and drag off the menu bar). Add back items one at a time until you find the one that is a problem. If you are using StuffIt Deluxe with a menulet, that is ALWAYS a problem. There are others as well (the Classic menulet does mine in).
Francine
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Menu bar freeze

right side of menu bar freezes, found a solution in the past using activity monitor...but problem returns.
hoping for long term solution.
09 imac (intel) with current mountain lion

Make a list of all the third-party applications that load an icon in the menu bar. Go through the list and eliminate all of them as suspects.

Right side of menu bar freezes after using AirPlay Mirroring

When I use Airplay Mirroring with my MacBook Pro to stream "web only" videos on Hulu (or to stream Amazon Prime videos) onto my Apple TV, afterwards the right side of my menu bar gets the rainbow spinny thing (the "spinning beach ball of death," as my sister calls it)
I can't click on anything, the time and battery status won't move, the only thing I can click on on the right side is the Notifications tab thing and also DropBox. The left side is working fine, I can click on everything and it responds.
My dad fixed it last time it did this, I think he repaired the permissions or something (not sure though, I wasn't there when he did it.) So I know I can fix it, but I was just wondering if anyone else was having this problem/if it's an issue with the software or just my computer. If it's just my computer, I'll tell Apple and ask them to fix it.
Thanks

Create a new user and see if it happens within that user. If it does, reinstall the operating system. This is also known as an Archive and Install. Be sure to back up your data first. If it doesn't, drag the com.apple.finder.plist file to the desktop from the folder [home folder]/Library/Preferences and restart and see if the problem persists. If it goes away, the issue was a corruption in that file. Let me know if you have any questions.

Top Menu Bar Freezing

Hey, I just noticed this today, I'm not sure how long it's been going on though. On my Powerbook G4, certain top menu bar items, all that have to do with OS X, including the TIME, SPOTLIGHT, AIRPORT MONITOR, as well as SOUND CONTROL freeze temporarily. Thus, the time freezes and does not display the correct time. Instead it displays the time at which the freeze occured. When you mouseover any of these items, the rainbow wheel appears. Has anyone had this problem? Possible fix? Thanks a lot!

Hi, Spencer and Inspired, et.al. —
Edit: Inspired's post appeared while I was editing what's below. We clearly agree on potential solutions. Since I've listed a few additional suggestions, I'll post this as a complement to Inspired's excellent response . . .
Some background and a few ideas for you to try —
The items on the right side of the menu bar are called "menu extras," and are managed by a process named SystemUIServer. When the behavior you've described is occurring, you may want to open Activity Monitor and check whether SystemUIServer is "hanging." If so, this may be a temporary situation. Your logs may provide an indication of what's causing the problem (I'd check system.log and console.log first). Please post back if you'd like help doing this.
From various readers' reports and solutions, this kind of problem can be caused by a number of things — including Spotlight activity, corrupted .plist files, incompatible 3rd-party "menu extras," etc.
For now, you may want to try these ideas (one at a time):
(1) Check that it's not simply an issue with Spotlight activity &/or indexing. If it is, waiting a little should do the trick.
(2) Locate these two files, move them to the trash, and restart:
~/Library/Preferences/ com.apple.systemuiserver.plist
~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/ com.apple.systemuiserver.xxxxxxxxxxxx.plist.
After restarting, these preference files will be regenerated. But please note that you may have to reset all of your preferences involving menu extras — or launch them from the "Menu Extras" folder, as described above.
(3) Identify any 3rd-party "menu extras" you have installed, and disable them — then check to see the impact of this change. If you have unsanity's Application Enhancer system (APE) installed, you may have to use its preference panel and uninstall it.
(4) Try locating and re-enabling menu extras — either from their respective System Preferences or (not all have prefs) from their path: Go to /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras. All of the menu extras are located here. (SystemUIServer is also located in the CoreServices folder.) Double-click to re-enable any of the menu extras that are currently disabled. Note that, if you make a mistake, you can click on any menu extra and ⌘-drag it to a diffferent location or off the menu bar entirely. You may want to restart (some would say to also repair permissions) after doing this — but I can't confirm this is necessary.
(5) In several situations (that I mention only as a ~"last resort"), users have used Pacifist to extract a "fresh" copy of SystemUIserver from their Install Disc or, e.g., from the 10.4.3 Combo Update Package and replacing the existing copy of SystemUIServer. Note that there are supporting files — so please post back to discuss this if you eventually decide it's warranted.
I hope one of these solutions that have worked for others is helpful.
Please feel free to post back and discuss things further . . .
Good luck!
Dean
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What is this Icon? (Upper Right Finder Menu Bar)

There is an icon on the upper right of the Finder menu that is all gray and is a thin vertical line with two equal sized triangles lined up on it on the right side, and a squiggly line going across the center of the line horizontally.
I clicked on it and it caused my cursor to become a multicolored wheel while in the Finder toolbar, and I'm going to have to log out to get it to stop. It doesn't appear in the Force Quit list (unless it's Finder, System Profiler, which I don't think it is).
Sorry for the dumb question.
Wish we could paste pics in here; I made a Grab shot of it....
-Linda

I really have no idea which icon you're describing but...
SystemUIServer is background process but one of the apps it specifically controls the right hand side of the Menu bar, where the Menu Extras are and should return your icons to default.
Go toUsers/yourname/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systemuiserver.plist
/Users/yourname/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.systemuiserver.0017f2c28128.plist and delete these files, Then, log out and back in.
EDIT: You can post pics... with the HTML Code. Try http://photobucket.com/
-mj
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Authoring DVDs for Windows Media Player: right hand menu bar

Hi, I'm using DVD Studio Pro 4 to author a DVD. It's quite a simple one, just an option to play the whole video or to go to the chapter index, where there are 9 chapters to choose from.
I've noticed in Windows Media Player that, although the DVD works fine and the video and chapter names come up on the menu as expected, in the player's menu bar on the right you get "Untitled DVD" and then "Title" 1-10 instead of the video and chapter names. Is there any way of authoring the DVD so that this right menu bar displays meaningful names? Or is this something that needs to be done in the player?

The info that Windows Media Player uses to identify the disc is not stored on the disc. Windows Media Player accesses on on-line database to get the DVD name, exactly the same way that iTunes get CD names. If you do not have a commercial DVD then all that will ever appear is, "Untitled DVD".

Right-side Menu Bar Widget

How do I take the sample vertical menu bar that pops out
menus to the right, to make them pop out to the left?

Click on the SpryMenuBar tag thing (aqua-ish tab at the top
of the menu) and go to the Properties panel. Click Customize this
widget and in the help menu click the Position Submenu category to
see the short answer - you set the margins to contrl the position.
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Strange behaviour: menu bar freezes, programm icons incomplete

People,
I dont know what happened to my system.
I had some problems with the entourage database on my mac. Since i was not able to resolve it in any way (ms database utility was starting up and unexpectetdly quit always - if anybody can help here?) i noticed some odd behaviour and i started to delete all microsoft files from my mac.
But now there is still somethin strange going on.
For exemplae when i try to open a programm which has no programm icon yet (eg downloaded from internet) i will get a message that the programm my be damaged.
After that i can do merely nothing on my system!
I still have my finder-menu-bar - but i can not select andything to do for example a restart or to shut down. I also cant do this from other programs. only way is to activate the user switch in the right upper corner, go to the login screen and there (i can log in my user again there) select force restart.
i am absolutely clueless what is going on here!
My system was a leopard clean install and i took great care that everything is neat.
Now i have been sitting ducks here with the whole day start - force restart and so on.
Any ideas?
Thanks,alexander

Alexander Reinelt1 wrote:
People,
I dont know what happened to my system.
I had some problems with the entourage database on my mac. Since i was not able to resolve it in any way (ms database utility was starting up and unexpectetdly quit always - if anybody can help here?) i noticed some odd behaviour and i started to delete all microsoft files from my mac.
But now there is still somethin strange going on.
For exemplae when i try to open a programm which has no programm icon yet (eg downloaded from internet) i will get a message that the programm my be damaged.
After that i can do merely nothing on my system!
I still have my finder-menu-bar - but i can not select andything to do for example a restart or to shut down. I also cant do this from other programs. only way is to activate the user switch in the right upper corner, go to the login screen and there (i can log in my user again there) select force restart.
i am absolutely clueless what is going on here!
My system was a leopard clean install and i took great care that everything is neat.
Now i have been sitting ducks here with the whole day start - force restart and so on.
Any ideas?
Thanks,alexander
Your HD may be failing, for one thing.
Run DU and check both the HD and repair the file permissions.
Windows programs can collect and retransmit viruses and possibly damage some files. There are reports of a few viruses for Macs.
But I suspect it is most likely your HD going South.
If DU does not turn up any errors, post back.

Spry Menu Bar - Freezing the Menu item in hover when clicking a submenu item

Hi,
I am trying to add a feature to a verticle spry menu bar that freezes the menu item or "parent" (to apear to be hovered) when clicking one of the parents sub-menu items. I want to do this so that users can know how they arrived at the page they're on.
Thanks for your help,
-Shiva

To look at your intention in a different way,
Hover over a submenu item
Parent item is colored/indicated
Submenu item is colored/indicated
Click on the submenu item
New page opens
Parent item "remains" colored/indicated on the new page
There are three or four ways to do this, depending on your site setup, but one basic concept to understand. The emphasis on the Parent menu item is totally independent of whether you got to the new page via the menu or by some other means. The emphasis will always be there, though it will appear to be connected to your clicking on the menu!
Say you have a menu with two Parent menu items, flowers and trees.
On the Flowers menu are submenus: Tulips, Roses, and Gardenias, On all three different Flowers pages (Tulips, Roses, Gardenias), the Flowers parent item will be emphasized.
On the Trees menu are submenus: Oak, Maple, Spruce. On all three different Trees pages (Oak, Maple, Spruce), the Trees parent item will be emphasized.
If you want to go in to each page individually, you can use a general indicator like id="localemphasis". (To emphasize more than one thing on a page, use a class instead of an id)
Using this method, on the Tulips, Roses, and Gardenias pages, put id="localemphasis" on the Flowers parent menu item.
On the Oak, Maple, and Spruce pages, put id="localemphasis" on the Trees parent menu item.
To control the emphasis from the CSS stylesheet, you won't need to go into each page, but you will ID each parent menu item.
Give each 'category' (Flowers, Trees) page a body ID to match the category
Every Flower page wants the Flower parent menu item emphasized, give all three Flower pages a body tag like this: <body id="flowers">
LIkewise, every Tree page wants the Tree parent menu item emphasized, as <body id="trees">
Within the menu itself and on ALL pages, give each parent menu item an id to correspond to its category
<li id="flowers_m">Flowers</li>
<li id="trees_m">Trees</li>
          I have added a "_m" to remind myself that it is the menu item's id. You might need to put the id on the <a> link if you have not used a list for your menu.
In your CSS stylesheet,
   #flowers #flowers_m,
     #trees #trees_m {background-color: red; color: white;}
Please use your own code! White on red might not be your cup of tea...use the same styling as the "hover" styling you mention in your query.
To interpret what we have just done, we have said
     make the background-color red and the text white
for the parent menu item Flowers (id="flowers_m") when you are on a Flowers page (body id="flowers")
and for the parent item Trees (id="trees_m") when you are on a Trees page (body id="trees").
This emphasis is good feedback for your user...remember that for SEO purposes, you will also want to use actual HTML text to reinforce the page environment, that is, h1 titles like FLOWERS and TREES. That will provide more feedback for your user.
Beth

MENU BAR ITEMS ON RIGHT SIDE ARE GONE!!!

I am using 10.2.8 on my iBook. All the menu bar items on the right side (audio, date and time, internet connect, airport) are suddenly GONE and there is nothing I can do to get them back. Clicking show battery status in the menu bar does not work. Ditto with date and time in menu bar and show PPPoE status in menu bar. Show volume in menu bar cannot be checked!!! I called Apple Care and they recommend an archive install of system folder and then reinstalling all my other programs. That sounds extemem and I'd like to avoid it if possible. Please help! Thank you very much!

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Menu bar, finder and aperture not displaying correctly. Reinstall doesn't help, can't upgrade to 10.8

Hi. Immensely frustrated. A few weeks ago, I don't know what happened, I started experiencing all sorts of problems. These are:
The upper right side menu bar doesn't display all the icons, they're there but invisible
Aperture isn't displaying images, instead I get weird digital patterns (see screen capture)
Finder window lost its icons too. Again, they work, but are invisible.
frequent crashes
can't upgrade to mountain lion, I get an error that the file was corrupted during dowload (have tried several times)
Command-R doesn't work
Reinstall from startup disk didn't change anything
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Alignment Issues with Spry Menu Bar in Safari

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I am new to CS5 and currently building a site for a friend. Having issues with aligning then far right spry menu bar so that it is flush with the page. It only shows a problem on Safari (as far as I know). Also the second tab (About) is dropping down slightly when the drop down menu is selected and not sure how to fix it.

If you place the menubar in a container with an ID of nav or similar and a background color of #EEE so that it blends in with the background colour of the menu items, the centralise the menubar and menu items as per http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/samples/menubar/CenteringHorizontalMenuBarSample.h tml, it should go a long way to meeting your requirements.
Gramps

ITunes 10 top menu bar dissapeared

Hi all,
I recently tried out a few apps to delete duplicates in iTunes - iDupe and Dupin. I wasn't really happy with either, so I removed both apps. Now, when I click on the iTunes Library -> Music view, I get all my music in a list, but the right hand top menu bar has disappeared. Then when I scroll down the list, the music list scrolls through the top part of the window where the menu bar with search, view options and info window should be. The left hand top menu bar with volume, play, etc. is still there. This is only in the music view, all other views work normally.
I tried reinstalling iTunes 10, but the problem remains.
Any ideas how to fix this would be much appreciated.
MacBookin
Update:
I tried this suggestion to place the 3 window optimizing buttons back on the top of the window:
http://www.macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/howto_fix_apples_itunes_10s_minimize_maximize_closebuttons/
Now, I have the 3 buttons at the top and a narrow, grey menu bar at the top of the right menu bar - but the main part of the right top menu bar is still missing, including the functionalities mentioned.
Message was edited by: MacBookin
Message was edited by: MacBookin

Problem solved.
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Final cut pro 7 menu bar slow

So I recently upgraded my MacBook Pro to a SSD drive. I reinstalled OS and everything, I've noticed that since doing that Final cut pro 7 seems strange. Whenever editing and then clicking on the menu bar it takes up to four seconds for it to respond and drop down. I've tried rebooting, reinstalling "7.0.3" update and I've even verified and repaired the disk permissions. PLEASE someone help. With my standard original hard drive I never had this issue. With both situations my media and everything was on the same hard drive.
System Specs:
OS X: 10.8.3
Proc: 2.3 GHz Core i7
Mem: 8GB
HD: 500 GB Solid State SATA Drive
Thank you in advance!
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Ran into the same issue here.
dual 2.66 6-core Mac Pro
OS 10.8.3
Did a full base 10.8 install. Ran all updates. Repaired disk perms. Ran the original FCS3 installer. Ran all updates. Repaired disk perms again. Opened FCP and got the same 4-5 second menu bar freeze. Not only the menu bar, but playing clips on the timeline has the same delay.
What I can tell you is that it's related to your specific user perms. Try logging out, logging back in as a different user (create a new one from scratch) and you'll see that FCP works just fine. So, as far as I can tell, the error is related only to the original user account that installed the application.
I didn't have enough time to research this in detail, so I just wiped the original account that installed the app and have migrated over to the new one.
Looking forward to hearing from anyone else about a more elegant solution.
-b

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