System Prefs Energy Saver Options has disappeared??

I seem to have lost my Options in system prefs, energy saver?
I have also lost my battery indicator in the top right hand corner?
can anyone help??

This may require a few steps...
If you haven't lately, do these two steps...
Using Disk Utility in Mac OS X 10.4.3 or later to verify or repair disks...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302672
About Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions feature...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25751
Then Reboot.

Similar Messages

More detailed information on system preferences "energy saver"

Is there anyplace I can find a more detailed explanation in one place of the options available under "energy saver" in preferences in Mavericks? I am trying to avoid the improper dismount of external HDs and am trying to find a useful description of which of the five options can be used in which combinations with a Mavericks iMac and external HDs: a Thunderbolt; a USB 3; and a USB 2 (currently turned off).
Apple's current exxplanations are few, sparse, and scattered. For example, I only happened upon an explanation of "enable power nap" at http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5394 by chance, and it does not even mention the improper ejection of external HDs and the effect that this selection has on this problem, even though the problem is pervasive, long-standing (predating Mavericks), and largely unresolved. See, for example, https://discussions.apple.com/message/24478149#24478149, with more than 60,000 views, many of them highly and legitimately frustrated.

Barney-15E:
Re 1/21 message:
I’m still not sure that it is helpful to say the settings “do what they say they do,”
Many Apple statements used to be clear, but things have gotten much more complex since the Apple II.
The first energy saver option, "put hard disks to sleep when possible," fails to describe, or give a link to a description of, when it is "possible.' it is not obvious. For example, if TM is running or, as in my case, Crashplan is running in the background, does the OS wait to put the hard disks (in my case a hybrid drive) to sleep?
The option also fails to describe "sleep." Looking down to "power nap," and what the computer does when set to that, one can deduce, infer, or reasonably guess - since "power nap" should be different for "sleep when possible" - that once the hard disk has been put to sleep under a "when possible" scenario, it cannot back up with TM or check for email, etc. But since in another obscure place, Apple tells us that an iMac is never completely asleep - it is not even fully powered off with the power button completely, only unplugging gets it completely off - it appears that under both options the "sleep" stops a hard disk from spinning but the OS and hard disk firmware are not shut down. That is what I had previously understood as "sleep." So, clearly, there are two different types/levels of "sleep" intended in the options. Wouldn't it be useful for an explanatory sentence to be added to the "when possible" option as one is given for the "nap"?
Furthermore, nothing in the energy saver options (imaged) indicates whether the two sleep options are compatible (what are the consequences of having both selected?) or that only one should be selected.
As to whether any of the numerous discussions about "improperly ejected" external HDs refer to "power nap" is something I will explore by raising the question on one of them. In the meantime, it seems to me that even if the persistent problem only involves those who set to sleep whenever possible, it is still a problem worth resolving. (Apple is said to be working on it.) Until then, I believe more information to allow intelligent use of the "energy saver" options would be welcome.
Re 1/22 message:
Although I think that as of now Apple doesn't own any HD manufacturers, it should have some interest in what HD manufacturers present as being Mavericks-compatible and in making sure that the OS, including parts easily set by users, such as the energy saver settings, works with the HDs at least when they are set up for TM. This is particularly true when the Apple Store sells the HD; and more so when the HD uses Thunderbolt, a connection predominantly, if not exclusively, Apple's. At any rate, I think the readily accessible Apple support pages (not those for developers), should make clear whether Apple is representing that the "power saver" sleep settings are compatible with any external HD, and if Apple can't supply details, it should at least offer a link to sites which can.
Finally, you note that your external drives "sleep fine" and "without incident." What settings do you use? Is this true under 10.9.2? Have you had an "improper ejection" at all using Mavericks?
For the moment, I have not elected either option. (PS - I have found that even with this setting, my old Iomega running USB2, if on, may have improperly ejected when I check in in the morning. I can imagine that its firmware, etc., did not anticipate changes in the last few years in OS, sleep settings, etc.) My cure for this is to shut that drive (an archive) off when I don't need to refer to it.

Can no longer connect to my network and 'forget network' option has disappeared??

Can no longer connect to my network and "forget network" option has disappeared??? (Ipod touch 5th generation). This happened on both my children's ipods. We have reset network settings but it doesn't help.

JEM24 , your suggestion is included in:
- iOS: Troubleshooting Wi-Fi networks and connections
Turn your Wi-Fi router off and on2. If your ISP also provides cable or phone service, check with them before attempting this step to avoid interruption of service.
JEM24 wrote:
Sorry Mindi, also have your tried rebooting your router? That's all. Try that before you attempt to Restore. Cheers.

(OSX 10.5.8, PowerPC 1.25 GHz) Recently, the keyboard lighting stopped working and the preferences option has disappeared. What happened?

(OSX 10.5.8, PowerPC 1.25 GHz) Recently, the keyboard lighting stopped working and the preferences option has disappeared. What happened?

Reset the Power Management Unit (PMU): http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1431#faq10 . If that doesn't do it, reset PRAM: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379

Can't get MAC to shut down and start up via the schedule button in system preferences energy saver. Is there another way?

Can't get MAC to shut down and start up via the schedule button in system preferences energy saver. Is there another way?

Try this to start:
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions
Boot from your Leopard Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. 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 installer.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior and/or Tech Tool Pro to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.

Save as has disappeared from my menu

Hi and good evening
On my Mac Save As has disappeared from the Pages menu. Under Share the Send by email is grey ie not in bold as usual, but the formats - Word etc are in bold and when clicked on an email (new message) comes up but if I've clicked on Word the document appears to not have been changed from Pages. Hence the attachment has been blocked by the recipents Outlook Express.
Sorry...as you can tell ...I'm not too good on computer speak.
Can anyone help please?
Thanks
Ann

Hi Ann,
You wrote:
" Under Share the Send by email is grey ie not in bold as usual, but the formats - Word etc are in bold and when clicked on an email (new message) comes up but if I've clicked on Word the document appears to not have been changed from Pages. Hence the attachment has been blocked by the recipents Outlook Express."
When you 'share' a document, you need to choose a format in which to share it. For reasons unknown, Apple has decided to change the layout of the Share menu to make "Send via Mail" and "Export" non-selectable category headers, and place the format choices in the top-level menu. It's a design choice, but one I can't see much benefit in.
Your document itself will not show any change in format if you choose "Word," but if you check the attachment to the email message produced, you see the .doc extension indicating it is a Word file. If you have Word (or one of the open source Office applications (eg. LibreOffice, OpenOffice.org), 'Sharing' a Word copy of the document with yourself, thenopening it with one of these applications (but not with Pages). All will open a Word format document, and none of them will open a Pages format document. Your resut should tell you whether the conversion has been made.
Regards,
Barry

Since upgrading to iOS8 on my iPhone 4s and iPad 2, the Airplay option has disappeared, is this a known issue?

Since upgrading to iOS8 on my iPhone 4s and iPad 2, the Airplay option has disappeared, is this a known issue?

If you don't see the AirPlay icon in Control Center:
1. Turn off router, Apple TV and iPad
2. Turn on router and then wait 30 seconds for it to complete start-up process
3. Turn on Apple TV and then wait 30 seconds for it to complete start-up process
4. Turn on iPad and test AirPlay

My Energy Saver option is locked - how do I unlock it? When I click on the lock, I can't make changes - it will not unlock.

My Energy Saver option is locked - how do I unlock it? When I click on the lock, I can't make changes - it will not unlock. My passwords are disabled. I'm using iMac with the OS X Version 10.9.4. Many thanks.

Maybe the following since I do not really understand what yo mean by click on the top part of the screen
Unsupported third-party add-ons may cause Safari to unexpectedly quit or have performance issues - Apple Support

Energy Saver Options Tab missing from System Preferences Pance

Recently I upgraded with Combo Update Snow Leopard 10.6.2 on my Mac Pro and now I find that I have no Options Tab in the Energy Saver Pane of System Preferences. All the options that used to be available there cannot now be accessed. Sleep\Wake is functioning fine, and I can't remember what settings I had or even used. It has not been critical for me so I rarely check these options. It is possible that the tab disappeared when I applied the latest Security Update a few days ago - I'm not sure. Since the big weekend storm here I want to use the automatic restart after power failure feature that I think lived behind that tab. Thanks for any help.

I should say that I rarely, if ever, use the lower missing options mentioned above. If I am accessing the Mac Pro from my other local computers I just wake up the Mac Pro. And I can't ever remember wanting my computer to restart after a power failure. If we have a power failure in this area, it is likely to come back on and then just as suddenly go off again. Not a good thing, I would imagine, for delicate electronics. Usually I wait 30 minutes to an hour after the power resumes in my home before powering up any electronic equipment.
I do wonder why the options disappeared though.

System Preferences Energy Saver - Icon is screwy (see pic). Any clues?

Hello all,
I have a strange one here. Somehow I've ended up with a screwy Energy Saver icon in my System Preferences. I checked the package contents ( System/Library/PreferencePanes/EnergySaver.prefPane ), and the Resources/EnergySaver.icns file within is intact and looks fine. It seems like the SystemPreferences app has just decided not to resize it when displaying.
Here is a screen capture (click for full view):
Anyone seen anything like this before? And if so, any ideas on how to fix it? Everything seems to be working OK. Hopefully this isn't a sign of a bigger problem... I can't figure out what would have caused it.
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.8)
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.8)
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.8)
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Quit System Preferences if it is open, and choose Go to Folder from the Finder's Go menu. Enter ~/Library/Caches/ as the folder's location, throw away the item named com.apple.preferencepanes.cache inside, and then restart System Preferences.
(20067)

Photosmart C5580: PDF File type option has disappeared from Scan Shortcut Settings under Documents

For 6 years I have used PDF as the file type for scanning documents. Yesterday it switched to TIFF. This creates files of ~8.5 MB per scanned page.
The PDF option does no longer show in the dropdown menu. Remaining options are:
Bitmap, TIFF, TIFF Compressed, JPEG, GIF, PNG, PCX and FlashPix.
How do I get PDF back on the list.
I run Vista Home Premium

Hi @vliegendeboer ,
I see that you are having issues with the PDF option missing from the scanning software. I would like to help.
In the HP Solution Center Software, select the option to change settings, select Save to File Save Options, on the File Type, try and select PDF and press OK. I don't have the exact Version 12 software you are using to go by, but the steps should be similiar.
If you are still not able to select PDF ,download and run the Print and Scan Doctor. It will diagnose the issue and might automatically resolve it.Find and fix common printer problems using HP diagnostic tools for Windows?
If there was any updates recently done on the computer, you can restore your computer back to before everything was working properly. How To Use System Restore in Windows Vista.
If you are still having issues, the software might have become corrupted. Uninstall and reinstall the printer software.
Uninstall software & drivers.
HP Photosmart C5580 All-in-One Printer Drivers.
Try scanning a PDF again.
If you need further assistance, just let me know.
Have a wonderful day!
Thank You.
Please click “Accept as Solution ” if you feel my post solved your issue, it will help others find the solution.
Click the “Kudos Thumbs Up" on the right to say “Thanks” for helping!
Gemini02
I work on behalf of HP

System preferences energy saver isn't working

I've noticed that after installing 10.6.6 that my energy saver preferences are sporadic. I have it set to reduce brightness after 10 minutes and after an hour it still bright. I've dumped com.apple.systempreferences.plist but the problem still exists. I've done the disk utility and even used Cocktail and nothing seems to work. Any ideas?

Move this file to the Desktop then restore your ES settings. In the HD Library.
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.PowerManagement.plist
IIRC, you will need to give your admin password.

My share option has disappeared from by FB business page

Can anyone help please: just before Christmas, I think there was another FB Pages update, which I did. My "share" option on posts has now disappeared, so people can only 'like' or 'comment'. Also the "insights" info is different when I access the page directly vs when I access it through my personal FB page. AND I now have to log in to the business Page every time I want to access it.
Help please.

Welcome to Pages Forum! Pages is a program in the iWork suite, an Apple product. If you have problems with FB (face book?) you have to ask there.

Error message in System Prefs Screen Saver/Desktop

: When I try to open Screen Saver or Desktop Prefs, I get "There was a problem connecting to the server 'iDisk.mac.com'". I have a new MacBook Pro with Mountain Lion. How can I change the prefs, and stop getting the annoying message that again pops up as soon as I click "OK"?

Triple-click anywhere in the line below to select it:
grep -R idisk ~/L*/Preferences
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C).
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste (command-V) into the Terminal window.
The command may take a noticeable amount of time to run. Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign (“$”) to appear.
Post any lines of output that appear below what you entered — the text, please, not a screenshot.
If any personal information appears in the output, anonymize before posting, but don’t remove the context.

Address Lookup option has disappeared

hi all,
my company recently moved to google mail and i am using a BB with curve 9300. all seems to be working fine except for 2 things.
firstly when i go to compose an email on my BB and look for a company name in the address book i no long have the address lookup function. i am sure it was there when i first set up my BB with our company gmail domain.
secondly 2 way sync seems to be working fine except for when i delete a message on the BB i get the option to delete on handheld and on mailbox and select that. except it never does. i have recived the message over and over from the server. i have changed the settings so on conflicts handheld wins and still the message wont delete on the server. the sync works fine for sent items on BB calender and for read items. just wont delete.
any help would be much appreciated. have been trawling the internet for help but not found anything yet.
thanks in advance
g

Hi gjrc,
The address lookup feature is only available when using a BlackBerry Enterprise Server. If your company has switched to GMail for their mail service, they would not be using BlackBerry Enterprise Server anymore.
-CptS
Come follow your BlackBerry Technical Team on twitter! @BlackBerryHelp
Be sure to click Kudos! for those who have helped you.Click Solution? for posts that have solved your issue(s)!

System Prefs Energy Saver Options has disappeared??

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for