Slow loading of System Preferences with Yosemite?

I noticed that with the implementation of Yosemite I see about about a 20 second delay when I select System Preferences. All other aspects of Yosemite system functions seem to be running as they were under Mavericks. Not a critical issue I am just curious if anyone else has seen this delay.

If this was the first time you opened it, then that is normal. The second time should be faster. Re-indexing can also result in slower than normal application launches. It may not hurt to repair your hard drive and permissions.

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You cannot use the application “System Preferences” with this version of Mac OS X.
I received this error message when trying to run System Preferences (SP) for the first time after running the 10.5.1 update (from the download, not software update). After the update, I repaired permissions. Did another restart. Same.
I reinstalled 10.5.1 update. Same message. Logged in as another user. No change.
I removed the com.apple.systempreferences.plist from ~/library/preferences. No change, and it did not re-create the .plist file.
Any ideas? No one else seems to be having this problem as far as I can tell.
dkrockville

I have had this problem with many applications after updating to 10.5.1, including
System Preferences, Calculator, Preview. Tried repairing permissions, and other tips from this thread. The strange thing is, the actual Leopard applications seem to have actually vanished? I don't know if this is anything to do with Time Machine; Anyway, My fix was:
Download Pacifist (if you don't already have it), locate the apps that you're having problems with on the Leopard install DVD, and copy them to the Applications Folder (Click on 'Replace Bundle')
Problem Solved for Me!
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Mail keeps asking for password and icloud setting do not load in system preferences

Hi,
I have a mac mini server with mavericks, i have 2 iMacs as clients running mavericks too, when i use iMac (A) mail app and icloud work fine, them i take iMac (B) and mail app start asking for password , it just won't take the password, icloud do not load and cannot use anything else on system prferences because it locks system preferences, i need to force quit system prefrences , so I return to iMac (A) and i get same behaivor as iMac (B), i would appreciate your help for finding a solution for this.
All network users get the same behaivor, local users do not get this behaivor.
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Hector

Hector;
I have the same problem. The solution is to log into your client, open Keychain, run Keychain First Aid under file menu. If it fails to find your keychain, note the path, mount the disk that it is looking for, and rerun.
In short, you need to have the disk that your keychain is sitting on mounted. While your user account is mounted, Maveriks cannot match the reference path. Looking like a bug.
Example:
my folder sits on a second disk on server. It is properly setup in the mavericks server.
On the server, it is locally referred to as: /Volumes/my_disk/Users/my_user. I can log in to mail on the server when I log in with my user name.
In the workgroup manager, the same location is referred to as:
afp://my_server.local/Users/my_user (or smb)
/Network/Servers/my_server.local/Volumes/my_disk/Users/my_user
So this is the network path. So the client should be looking for that. But instead, it looks for the local disk, which is not mounted as such. In other words, it looks for:
/Volumes/my_disk/Users/my_user/Library/Keychains
instead of
/Network/Servers/my_server.local/Volumes/my_disk/Users/my_user/Library/Keychains
To eliminate this problem, you mount the volume on the client, so it can find. I will keep the editorial to myself, but this is not quality software.
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i loaded yosemite onto my macbook pro and now cannot send emails using my aol account, help?

Hello skwalboone,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
To troubleshoot issues with sending email using the Mail application on your Mac, please follow the steps in the article linked to below.
OS X Mail: Troubleshooting sending and receiving email messages
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Slow loading blog and problems with comments

I've had a number of visitors e-mail to say that my blog takes too long to load, that the page is "jumpy" when scrolling down the page, and that it may not allow the person to comment or when commenting the site unexpectedly closes.
I've tried viewing the site using a PC and I see these problems with Firefox. IE users can leave comments and the site loads a bit better but not ideal.
Are other users experiencing these problems?

Kathryn ~ You could try downsizing your images manually using, for example, the Preview app and choosing File > Save As... then reducing the Quality slider.
Or downsize them automatically via:
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System Preferences - Network Not Loading

Hi,
I've a OS X 10.6.2 for a week now, and my Network Preference Pane wouldn't load all of a sudden. The last time I changeed it was the other day where I removed some wireless networks.
When I load the network pref pane, it just says "Loading Network..."
I created another user to check if it's just my user account, but it has the same problem too. So I would think it's a system-wide setting that went wrong.
My console log has the following whenever I try to open the pref pane:
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I have had exactly the same problem with the network not loading in system preferences. I am using a macbook pro running OSX 10.6.2. As an alternative to the suggestions made here I have tried running repair disk permissions several times and each time it brought up the same thing: Permissions differ on "usr/share/derby", should be drwxr-xr-x , they are lrwxr-xr-x ." It then apparently repairs the problem but it produces the same message each time: "Repaired usr/share/derby". I realise this might have nothing to do with the network problem.
In my case the problem seemed to happen when I logged on first thing thing this morning and Time Capsule was unable to connect to the internet. It requested a network password but then restarted before I put in the necessary password. The wireless network is operating I just can't bring up the network in preferences and I don't like the sound of the various solutions that have been tried because I'm not sure what data or settings I will lose. Any other suggestions would be most welcome.

Restoring System Preferences in Mavericks with Time Machine

I'm trying to get back to an earlier version of the System Preferences with Time Machine. All goes well until I hit restore, and then I get the notification that "“System Preferences” can’t be modified or deleted because it’s required by OS X." Am I doing something wrong?

Try restoring the preference file to the Desktop and try manually, with Admin password, to replace the existing file.
To restore to a cifferent location Command (right) - click on the file in TM and select this contextual menu option:
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System Preferences not loading Desktop and Screensaver

Every time I load the system preferences panel it loads fine but when I go to the desktop and screensaver settings it locks up and won't load anything so I have to force quit, if I wait it gives me the error window: system preferences quit unexpectedly, and asks if I want to reload. How do I fix this? I've restarted my computer several times and I've gone through and made sure all software updates were installed in case that was an issue.

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Go ▹ Library
from the menu bar. From the Library folder, delete the following item, if it exists:
Caches/com.apple.systempreferences
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Installed the 10.7.2 update this morning on both my iMac (Mid 2007) and MacBook (Late 2008) and everytime I try to open the iCloud preference pane it crashes. Activity monitor shows system prefrences is using loads of CPU and memory resources and then usually comes up as not responding.
This sometimes happens on the Mail Contacts and Calendars preference pane as well. All other preference panes are ok, sometimes a little slow but still work.
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Fixed for me....
after getting a new computer, i used time machine to restore my most recent backup. (from yosemite 10.10.2)
clicked iCloud in system prefs and i just hang. everything else about the restore seemed to work great.
i read on another forum... (http://gotoanswer.stanford.edu/?q=could+not+load+iCloud+preference+pane+and+coul d+not+load+internet+accounts+preference+…) that i had to do with a permissions error, in my case the "address book" folder in library was set to read only. so i removed the folder (to the desktop) rebooted, and problem solved. i could click pref panes iCloud and it was no longer stuck.
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Aside from logging and using the root account on a daily basis, is there a way to permanently be rid of the security lock thing in System Preferences?
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Thanks for taking the time to reply. However I'm quite aware that the sleep/wake button disables the screen. Unfortunately, mea maxima culpa, I sometimes accidentally hit shuttle before I've pressed the sleep/wake button, often when I am trying to do more than one thing at once. Sometimes I accidentally hit shuffle at other times too,eg when waking up the phone.
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Updated to 10.6.8 and now safari, system preferences, address book say "can't use this version"

Got a new harddrive in my 2010 macbook pro and rebooted it with time machine back up from a older mac running 10.5.8. I loaded snow leopard 10.6 from disc then updated to 10.6.8 on new computer after restore from back up. Now the Safari icon, system preferences and address book won't open and a box opens saying you can't use this version of the application system preferences with this version of mac os X You have sytem preferences 5.2. or safari says you have safari 5.0.6 etc. How do i update the apps so i can make them actually open. I can get them open in a round about way but not from the icons on my sidebar.

If you have an os on the hdd, why not do a clean install of the os (erase the drive and reinstall osx snow leopard) For snow leopard you insert the osx disk, restart the machine while holding down the c key
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3910
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System Preferences freezes in 10.9

Hi, I am running a mid-2012, 13" Macbook Pro with 8Gb of RAM, and have installed Mavericks. Mostly everything is running fine (some strange occasional scrolling weirdness with Safari notwithstanding) - but I am continually encountering a problem with System Preferences. I have been trying to access the iCloud pane, but it gets stuck on "loading iCloud" and becomes unresponsive - I can neither click on another preference pane to swap out of my choice, nor can I close System Preferences. I have had to click outside of the window, entering Finder, and force quit.
I noticed this same freeze happened when I tried to access Desktop/Screen Saver after re-launching System Preferences, too. I just tried again and was able to access every other pane.
Can anyone help with this? The reason I'm trying to access iCloud in SP is that I'm going to get the new iPad tomorrow, and I'd like to be able to have my Safari bookmarks on it. I used to be able to sync these via iTunes but it seems you can't do that anymore? I'd be happy if someone gave me a solution to this, even more than the SP problem (which I think may be sorted out with 10.9.1 whenever it comes...)
Thanks.

Update on my previous post and a new solution.
Previously, I was having issues with Mail crashing and the same issue everyone else is having with iCloud not loading in system preferences. I had gotten temporary relief by going online to iCloud.com and doing Account Settings > Advanced and clicking on Reset Documents & Data, but this only worked for 1 day. I finally solved the issue (working now for more than one week) by doing the following:
1) Deleting the following folders:
~/Library/Application Support/iCloud/
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.AddressBook
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.iCal
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail
2) Opening KeyChain Access and clicking the following:
> Preferences > General > Reset My Default Keychain
After doing all this, I had to enter my login details for everything all over again (since I reset my keychain), which has been somewhat of a hassle, but at least the problem has been solved.
My theory is that this problem is linked to iCloud and so my approach was to delete all traces of links to any iCloud accounts that I had logged into before. It may be possible to resolve this issue without going through all of these steps, I am just sharing everything I did since I did not try one thing at a time. In any case, I have been trouble free now for more than a week so I believe that the issue is finally resolved.

System Preferences

I wonder if anyone can help, I am trying to switch off my remote control setting on my macbook, to do this I need to go into security under system preference.
When I load up system preferences, the security icon under Personal doesn't look like it should! I believe it should be yellow and second from the right.. My is second from the left and is a funny grey box and the title is called com.apple.preference.sercurity... when clicking on this item I am presented with no options. This issue also happens on Sharing under Internet & Network.
I am running on MAC OS X Version 10.5.8
Any help would be great so I can then use my apple tv remote with out the mac going crazy
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Luke

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I've got a simple setup, which is still in testing (no production clients yet).
Server: Mac OS 10.9.1 with Server 3.0.2 . Self signed trust certificate and enrollment certificates. 3rd party SSL cert for web. I've tried this with 10.8.5/2.2.1 as well with no success there either.
Client: Mac OS 10.9.1
I configured a printer on my server through System Preferences with these settings:
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address: servername.mydomain.edu
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Name: MyPrinter2000
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I add a profile in Profile Manager that is associated to my client. I add some settings to try out including energy savings, login items, login window and some others. For the printer setting, I add the printer that is installed on my server. I allow users to manage the printer list, allow local printers, and save the setting.
The profile deploys right away, and on my test machine, I can see that the printer should be installed when reading the profile in System Preferences. In the Print & Scan menu, however, no printers are displayed whatsoever. I navigate to http://localhost:631 on this same client, and can see the printer there with the correct servername, queue, and driver. I am able to print a test page via that interface successfully.
I have tried installing the printer on the server as shared and not shared. I've removed all profiles and started from scratch with just one profile with just one printer added. Still nothing. I can't figure out why the printer seems to get deployed when I look at the web CUPS interface on the test machine, but System Preferences doesn't show anything.

Are you deploying the profile at user or machine level? I know you may know this but others may not but Apple began the deprecation of WorkGroup Manager with 10.7. FWIW those of us who've been using these technologies since 10.2 and earlier learnt to adapt and used a combination of many applications (some 3rd-party) as well as other techniques which over time worked consistently well. I suppose what I'm trying to say is don't pin all your hopes on PM because it's still not 'enterprise-ready' for OS X yet IMO. I think other veterans and professionals in my field may agree? Having said that I did make it work at some installations/deployments since its first release. Yet at other installations I saw exactly the same behaviour as you do. No logical reason as to why as the network contractor was the same for all those sites. For me this effectively ruled out the network topology and infrastructure as a potential source of the problem. Interestingly I noticed it occasionally worked if the printers were in the same subnet as the macs but even this was not conclusive.

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