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System preferences pane "busy and can't be closed" for 36 hours processing my command to delete a User Account. help!

Thanks for responding, Eric. The reboot freed up System Preferences.
I wasn't sure anyone looked in Maverick anymore. Thanks

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Security & Privacy System Preferences pane cannot open!

my env:
- Max OS X 10.7.3
- 2.2 Ghz Intel Core i7
this month , i can not enter Security & Privacy pane from System Preferences
- when i click
- pop alert windows, tell some error
what can i do now?!

that magic is:
- my MacBookPro set up two user
- in my user, Security & Privacy System Preferences pane cannot open!
- but switch another user ,
open Security & Privacy System Preferences pane is OK?!
What make this happened?!

Some system preferences panes won't open

I just installed Mountain Lionon my iMac. When I try to open the System Preferences panes for Notifications; Security & Privacy; iCloud; Mail, Contacts & Calendars; and Desktop & Screen Saver though, I get the message
To use the “[Name of pane]” preferences pane, System Preferences must quit and reopen.
Selecting OK causes the System Preferences to disappear and then come back, but that same error message is still there. How do I get rid of it so I can acess those panes? Thanks!

Yep:
Go to Applications folder
Select System Preferences
Enter Command I
Under General, deslect Open in 32-bit mode
Then try to acess what you were trying to earlier.
Good luck!

System preferences panes won't open in M.L.

I just installed Mountain Lion on two machines, apparently with success. With a MBP, and only in one account, I can't open selected panels in system preferences panes: notifications, desktop and screensaver, security and privacy, date and time, dictation and speech, time machine, and startup disk. This issue is specific to my account. I've another account on this same machine and the preferences panes open and work. I've already done the permissions repair, used Disk Utility in Recovery mode, repaired the hard drive disk, and reinstalled Mountain Lion, all to no effect. On my iMac, all works well. Does anyone have an idea of what to do next?

Right click on the System Preferences app in your Applications Folder. Select "get info" and make sure the 32 bit check box is NOT checked.

System Preferences pane - security icon no longer works on all tabs

System Preferences pane has several tabs where there there is a security option, i.e.: a padlock icon with 'click lock to prevent further changes".
the icon is not working on all the tabs - it works on some tabs, but on others it just flashes and stays unlocked.

so today it works... WT*!

Security & Privacy preference pane not opening

All of my system preferences panes work except Security & Privacy. This has been broken since installing 10.9.0 and 10.9.1 hasn't fixed it. Pane tries to open then gives the error, "There was an error in Security & Privacy preference pane." Looked through other posts for solutions but nothing seems to work. Tried creating a new user account, deleting caches, systempreferences.plist. Took into Apple Store and they suggested restoring from TimeMachine backup but that did not fix it. Been dealing with this for a while but now I really need to install an unsigned app and can't get to the security pane to allow it.

Our preference panes seem to be identical.
There are two other things you might want to investigate:
1) Although this is unlikely, look in /Library/PreferencePanes to see if for some reason there might be another copy of Security.prefPane.
2) Another possibility may be that a settings file is corrupted. One such file seems to be in your account's Library folder. In the Finder hold down an "option" key while you pull down the "Go" menu, then select "Library". In the resulting window open "Preferences". Find the file com.apple.systempreferences.plist. With System Preferences not running, drag that file to the Desktop. Then see if you can access the Security & Privacy panel.

Epson scanner perfection 1670 is not detected on system preference pane

It use to work but now it only produces blank grey scans.
I have deinstalled and reinstalled new driver from Epson support site.
I have also tried cleaning the USB connection with no results.
I have noticed that when I tried connecting to the internet from the the scanner Help menu it tells me I am not connected (while I am) and I noticed also that the scanner is not detected on system preference pane.

You can open System Profiler and under the Hardware heading you will see the USB entry. The printer should be listed under one of the USB busses. If you don't see it then the USB cable could be faulty or the printer itself could be cactus. So try another USB cable and in another port on the Mac. If the new cable and socket fails to make the printer appear in the USB view then the printer is the problem.
If the printer is visible under one of the USB busses then this would indicate that the printer and the USB cable is okay. In this case the printer should be capable of being added in Print & Fax. But if you select to add the printer and it does not appear in the Default view of the Add Printer pane then try a reset of the printing system, as described next.
1. Open System Preferences > Print & Fax
2. Move your mouse over the Printers list
3. Hold down the Control button and click the mouse
4. Click the "Reset printing system ..." popup
5. Restart your Mac

ICloud system preference pane

MacBook OS 10.7.4. The iCloud system preference pane does not open to the settings options - it directs me to Find my iPhone. Settings appear as expected on my iPhone. My iCloud account is available on iCloud.com. Any suggestions?

I'm not really sure what it is that you are asking, but in case it is relevant, you cannot access iCloud.com from an iOS device. Any iCloud data you wish to access on an iOS device, should be accessed through the appropriate app, such as calendar, contacts etc.

Keyboard & Mouse preference pane not opening

Hello.
Today I realised, that my keyboard and mouse preference pane is not working anymore.
I started the System Preferences app from the dock, clicked on Keyboard & Mouse and nothing happened. In the upper area the text "loading Keyboard & Mouse" appeared (or whatever the English translation is) but the preference pane didn't come up.
I only realised that now, because I created another user and wanted to set the mouse tapping behaviour and in the new account it's not working as well.
I know I could open the pref pane before, when I configured my own account 2 weeks ago.
There was however a keyboard firmware update in the meantime.
Could that have anything to do with this error? Is anyone else experiencing this behaviour? Can anyone give a hint on how to get the pref pane back?
Thanks in advance.

I noticed this problem on a new MacBook Pro as well. However my experience is a little different. First of all I imaged the MacBook Pro from a Leopard (10.5.2) image I made on a Mid 2007 Aluminum iMac. I noticed that after imaging the MBP, I could not load the Trackpad pref pane without glitches. Also the embedded quicktime tutorials for the gestures would not load, as if they were missing. I thought that using an image created on an iMac (which doesn't use the Trackpad Gestures) was causing problems. Then I found out that the user of the MBP sometimes could not even load the K & M pref pane. After some trial and error I found this thread, but Flavio's fix did not work for me. Our Leopard install was done with a custom setup and English is the ONLY language installed. So I can't move English up because it is the ONLY option.
Here is my workaround and explanation for my particular issue. Maybe someone will find it useful.
If you ever have trouble getting it to open again, just click on the Show All button in the upper left of the window. You will see a weird glitch and then all of the preference panes will show up. Then Click on Keyboard & Mouse again and this time it will work. In order to prevent the problem from happening you have to make sure to not leave the Trackpad tab selected when closing the System Prefs window.
When it is working correctly and you open the System Prefs window, If you click on the Trackpad section, it will glitch out and only partially open. Just click back onto another tab (Keyboard or Mouse, etc.) and it will fix itself (similar to the other fix).
Remember, if you select the Trackpad tab and then close the System Preferences pane, the next time you load up the Keyboard & Mouse pref pane it will get stuck indefinitely and you will have to repeat the above procedure to fix it again.
ALSO - I once read an article that listed the filepath of the embedded gesture quicktime files. I believe they are buried in the system somewhere, perhaps in an application package. If someone knows where they are located and could share, maybe I could verify if they are even in my image to help troubleshoot.
Jeff Hanlon

System Preferences panes unresponsive!

Hello,
I've been on all day trying to figure out what is wrong with my mum's Mac Mini (running 10.7.5). System preference panes are unresponsive, showing only "Loading Displays..."/"Loading sound..." etc, at the top of the window, and nothing happens.
I've been online and looked at everything that everyone else has tried: deleting the com.apple.systempreferences.plist thing; restarting in safe mode to remove login items (the system preferences panes don't work in safe mode either...); and downloading the latest (10.7.5) Combo Update to reinstall over what might be a bugged original update, but it won't allow me to install it, saying "the disk does not meet the requirements".
So... I'm quite confused, and at the moment it's looking like the only option is to reinstall Lion. Someone please tell me this isn't the case!
Thanks!

Ok this is what I get when I open system preferences and click on a pane (in this case, it was the "Displays" pane):
05/11/2012 16:43:02.128 System Preferences +[NSPrefCrossFadeView createCGImageOfView:rect:superview:windowRect:]: unrecognized selector sent to class 0x10f3ae570
05/11/2012 16:43:02.177 System Preferences +[NSPrefCrossFadeView createCGImageOfView:rect:superview:windowRect:]: unrecognized selector sent to class 0x10f3ae570
05/11/2012 16:43:02.255 System Preferences (
            0   CoreFoundation                  0x000000010f69afc6 __exceptionPreprocess + 198
            1   libobjc.A.dylib                    0x000000010f50fd5e objc_exception_throw + 43
            2   CoreFoundation                    0x000000010f7271ee +[NSObject doesNotRecognizeSelector:] + 190
            3   CoreFoundation                      0x000000010f687e73 ___forwarding___ + 371
            4   CoreFoundation                      0x000000010f687c88 _CF_forwarding_prep_0 + 232
            5   System Preferences                  0x000000010eea3383 System Preferences + 37763
            6   System Preferences                  0x000000010eea1d32 System Preferences + 32050
            7   Foundation                          0x000000010f92b1aa __NSFireDelayedPerform + 392
            8   CoreFoundation                    0x000000010f64fc24 __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_TIMER_CALLBACK_FUNCTION__ + 20
            9   CoreFoundation                      0x000000010f64f776 __CFRunLoopDoTimer + 534
            10 CoreFoundation                      0x000000010f630001 __CFRunLoopRun + 1617
            11 CoreFoundation                      0x000000010f62f676 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 230
            12 HIToolbox                           0x000000011181d2bf RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 277
            13 HIToolbox                           0x00000001118244bf ReceiveNextEventCommon + 181
            14 HIToolbox                           0x00000001118243fa BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode + 62
            15 AppKit 0x000000010fe26779 _DPSNextEvent + 659
            16 AppKit 0x000000010fe2607d -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 135
            17 AppKit 0x000000010fe229b9 -[NSApplication run] + 470
            18 AppKit 0x000000011009eeac NSApplicationMain + 867
            19 System Preferences                  0x000000010ee9bb30 System Preferences + 6960
            20 ??? 0x0000000000000002 0x0 + 2
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How to restore System Preferences's lock icon?

How to restore System Preferences's lock icon? My Mac's System Preferences's lock icon at the lower left corner disappeared, how to restore?

The solution is in this 5 Feb 2014 post by Dio Gratia:
"Go to the Security& Privacy System Preferences Pane, click the lock icon, authenticate and hit the Advanced button. Check the Require an adminstrator password to access system-wide preferences, hit Okay.
The lock icon will show up again on the Sharing Preference Pane. It should cure the missing lock icon in general."
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Re: No lock in the preference pane???

Missing user accounts in system preference pane 10.6.1?

(I hope this isn't posted under another topic already..)
After reading a post on another site about missing user data in Snow Leopard (http://bit.ly/3wf3v7), I decided to do a little digging on my own machine to see if I'm experiencing any of the same issues..
First of all I'm not readily experiencing any particular bugs since upgrading from 10.5.8 to 10.6.1, but I did notice the following:
-my usual admin user account (me) did not show any other user accounts on the machine in the system preference pane.
-I have fast user switching on, and when I select it the account name at the upper right corner of the screen, it shows all of the accounts that the sys pref pane does not.
-a quick look at my finder reveals on the root level that all of my user accounts are intact as well.
-I switched to another admin account on the machine, and it loaded up fine– upon opening the sys pref on the other admin account, I was able to see all of the other active accounts on the machine in the accounts pane.
-note: the guest account is deactivated, and I've not logged into a guest account since upgrading to 10.6.1.
So my question is: why doesn't my primary user account (obviously an admin account) see the other active accounts in my sys pref accounts pane, but my other admin accounts do? Not a huge deal, but at some point I'll need to make account changes from my user account in regards to the other user accounts and I'll need that functionality at that point.
-note: I've lost no data to my knowledge and I have a TM backup drive active.
Any thoughts from my fellow Mac Geniuses?

Creating an account named abc did not bring back my previous accounts. I had installed Snow Leopard on my iMac several months ago. My hard drive was damaged by SnowLeopard family pack install disk that I was using to update my daughter's Macbook on Friday. When I opened my Mac in target disk mode, there was no system folder on the hard drive. I started to install 10.5.8 so I could use my iMac-didn't get it finished before going to work. Bought a new Snow Leopard install disk on the way home, cancelled the uncompleted install of 10.5.8, and the iMac booted up like a new machine.
All my files are there, but the only user available is the one created while booting up. Migration assistant doesn't see the user accounts on the iMac hard drive.

System Preference Panes non-functional (some)

I am "fixing" a friends MacBook Pro as a favour, and she's getting exactly what she paid for. It may be a few years old - not sure. It's running Snow Leopard, 10.6.8, but I'm putting it in this more general section because it may not be SL-specific.
A few of the System Preferences panes don't work. A message comes up which simply says "non-functional" or something like that. Specifically, the ones whcih don't work are:
Desktop and ScreenSaver
Spotlight
Energy Saver
Background: she forgot her password, and this is on a computer which was formerly someone else's. I couldn't even get the thing to the login screen, so something else was wrong besides her password, but I had her gray Snow Leopard installation disks, so got through the re-install process, made a new User for myself, as Administrator, and was then delighted to find that all of her data was still intact. I had to add myself in to the permissions on her UserID. I made a new user for her as well, because we still didn't have her own original password, and I looked around but couldn't find it. I copied all of her data over to her new UserID.
I also did all Updates, plus tried a 10.6.8. combo update.
Then I made an error. The former owners UserID was also still there. We couldn't log on as her either, without her password, but I figured that we didn't need that anymore, checked with the current owner first, and deleted the original User (and renamed the computer). I cannot reconstruct in my mind whether the System Preferences panes malfunction occurred before or after deleting the original User.
There is other minor wonkiness, but basically the machine is running and the data has been preserved (and now backed up). But one thing at a time: I've reinstalled the OS a couple of times, without improvement. I tried to upgrade to Mavericks, but after downloading, it told me that this computer could not be upgraded (without saying why not).
I haven't found any plist files which look relevant. I did more 2 of them out of HD-Library-Preferences, without any effect, so put them back. I find the Preference Panes in System-Library-PreferencePanes, but didn't see anything to do about that. The offending panes look like they're at least present.
Is there something simple I'm missing? Can I get those panes back?
Thank you.
Charles

Macbook pros need to be at least 2009 for 13" and 2007 for 15" and 17" to run Mavericks. see system requiements.
At this point, the easiest solution will be to make your backups current, then wipe the drive and do a clean install of the system. That means more work reinstalling the backed-up data (you only want to restore data and third-party apps, not any of the system components), but it makes sure you get a clean, working copy of the system.

System preferences will not open after upgrade

upgraded software today and now system preferences will not open. when i click on it a message says "you cannot open the application 'system preferences' because it is not supported on this architecture". system preferences icon has a circle and slash symbol on top of it. my imac is about 6 months old and have not had a problem with it. all other apps work. please help.
lennyg2
iMac dual core Mac OS X (10.4.7)
iMac dual core Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Tried that, did 'repair disk permissions and it said all was ok. But when I pressed the 'Verify permissions' button it came out with an error message. Said that there was an error upon exiting, said the hard drive was damaged. Do you think that is connected to 'system preferences' not opening. As I said the 'system now has a 'circle with a slash' symbolon top of it.

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Reinstalling OS X Without Erasing the Drive
Boot to the Recovery HD: Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions: Upon startup select Disk Utility from the main menu. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions as follows.
When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the main menu.
Reinstall OS X: Select Reinstall OS X and click on the Continue button.
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible because it is three times faster than wireless.
Also see:
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Choose the version you have installed now:
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