System Preferences saying it needs to "quit and reopen".
Hello!
So, I upgraded from Leopard to Snow Leopard, and re-installed pretty much everything. The only thing I imported from 10.5 was the Perian PrefPane, because it was a modified version that allows you to chagne the size of the subtitles.. some dude gave me the link once and I can't find it (the link) again.
Anyway, When I open System Preferences, if I click on any other prefpane it just opens it normally. If I click on Perian, it says: (please see the image on the link.. I'm not really sure on how to attach the image here) http://grab.by/1Nho
Then, when I click "ok", it quits, reopens, and takes me to the PrefPane.
Any ideas on how to remove this behavior?
I already tried 'getting info' on the prefpane file (and the package contents) and changing to 'read&write'.. didn't work.
Thanks for the help!
-Alessandro
this happens because the preference pane is written in 32-bit and system preferences runs in 64-bit by default. so it needs to quit and restart in 32-bit every time you do this. you can set System preferences to always open in 32-bit. there is really no benefit in running it in 64-bit anyway.
go to the main Applications folder, select System preferences and enter command+i. in the popup check the box "open in 32 bit". that's it.
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