System Preferences duplicate icons

mattarinomattarino
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in macOS edited January 2014
All of a sudden, in my system preferences, a duplicate icon for my "Energy Saver" showed up at the bottom under the "Other" section. Any idea how I can get rid of this? If I change the settings in one, they do update correctly on the other. One of those things really bothering me. Thanks for any suggestions.

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 5
    paulpaul Posts: 5,278member
    http://forums.appleinsider.com/showt...threadid=22781
  • Reply 2 of 5
    frank777frank777 Posts: 5,839member
    I now have three "Iomega Active Delivery" icons in my "Other" Preferences, so I'm also looking forward to hearing a reply...
  • Reply 3 of 5
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    Delete the caches and restart.



    See the thread that Paul posted.
  • Reply 4 of 5
    dmgeistdmgeist Posts: 153member
    Okay guys this is a simple one. There are three places were your Preference Panes are stored, they are:



    /Library/Preference Panes

    /System/Library/Preference Panes

    /Users/(Your User Name Here)/Library/Preference Panes



    In these folders there is probly a duplicate file that your system thinks is a Preference Pane, delete it. Sometimes a program will save its .plist file in the wrong place....these things happen.......geist
  • Reply 5 of 5
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by dmgeist

    Okay guys this is a simple one.



    Actually, I've never seen a case where the system's own preference panes actually get duplicated as *files* through the PreferencePanes directories. Every instance I've experienced or read about is from the cache bug.



    Important correction with your post anyhow: "PreferencePanes" is one word, no space.
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