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User accounts icon is missing from system preferences app
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<blockquote data-quote="rsilva312" data-source="post: 853830" data-attributes="member: 103808"><p>I have been a Mac user for quite some time and I have not posted here before since I have not had any issues with my lovely mac until now. I have not made any recent changes to my OS, and have not really fiddled with anything, but I noticed that when I open the system preferences the user accounts icon is missing. I have tried a fix that I found in a thread from 2007,</p><p>Firstly, close System Prefs and then navigate to: </p><p></p><p>Home folder > Library > Caches. </p><p></p><p>Find the following files:</p><p></p><p>com.apple.preferencepanes.cache</p><p>com.apple.preferencepanes.searchindexcache</p><p></p><p>and delete them.</p><p></p><p>Empty your Trash then re-open System Preferences and see if the User Account icon has returned.</p><p></p><p>I am unhappy to say that this did not work <img src="/mac_images/images/smilies/Angry-Tongue.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":Angry-Tongue:" title="Angry Tongue :Angry-Tongue:" data-shortname=":Angry-Tongue:" />. I also tried accessing Account preferences from "help" but all I get is an error message that it cannot be opened because it is disabled or uninstalled <img src="/mac_images/images/smilies/Straight-Faced.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":|" title="Straight Faced :|" data-shortname=":|" /> . I am not sure what else to do and since I am not an expert on using terminal, etc. I did not want to mess with anything like that until I hopefully find someone who can help me with this. Any information and tips would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rsilva312, post: 853830, member: 103808"] I have been a Mac user for quite some time and I have not posted here before since I have not had any issues with my lovely mac until now. I have not made any recent changes to my OS, and have not really fiddled with anything, but I noticed that when I open the system preferences the user accounts icon is missing. I have tried a fix that I found in a thread from 2007, Firstly, close System Prefs and then navigate to: Home folder > Library > Caches. Find the following files: com.apple.preferencepanes.cache com.apple.preferencepanes.searchindexcache and delete them. Empty your Trash then re-open System Preferences and see if the User Account icon has returned. I am unhappy to say that this did not work :Angry-Tongue:. I also tried accessing Account preferences from "help" but all I get is an error message that it cannot be opened because it is disabled or uninstalled :| . I am not sure what else to do and since I am not an expert on using terminal, etc. I did not want to mess with anything like that until I hopefully find someone who can help me with this. Any information and tips would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. [/QUOTE]
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