Hi Bob, Thanks for checking your system. I wonder if some recent system update broke this.
Gregg On 8 May 2015, at 11:26 AM, Bob Nugent <[email protected]> wrote: > Mine too. > > -----Original Message----- > From: MacOSX-talk [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C] > Sent: Friday, May 08, 2015 10:08 AM > To: [email protected] Talk > Cc: Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C] > Subject: can't lock TimeMachine in System Preferences > > Hi, > > I use a non-admin account on my Mac Pro, which is running 10.9.5. In the > System Preferences app, I keep things locked and then I click on the little > lock icon in the lower left corner (and authenticate) when I want to change > something. > > Today I noticed that the Time Machine preference panel was unlocked, so I > clicked on the icon to lock it, but nothing happened. I tried some other > panels and I could still lock and unlock those. > > I rebooted into recovery mode and ran Disk Utility to repair the disk and > the permissions, but that did not help. I tried logging in as Admin, but > then there is no little lock icon in the Time Preferences app. I logged in > as Guest User and again I could not lock the Time Machine preferences, > though I could lock and unlock others. I deleted the plist for TimeMachine > in /Library/Preferences (and let it be recreated), but that did not help. > > Does anyone know what might be wrong and how I can fix this? > > Thanks, > > Gregg > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
