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When I open System Preferences and click on an item it says 'Loading Users & Groups' at the top of the window, but will not load the pane.

I've tried deleting the property list file: 

 /library/preferences/com.apple.systempreference.plist

I also tried clearing the PR and booting in Safe Mode. Anyone have any other ideas before I wipe and re-install?

thanks mcgrailm

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Have you looked in the console? Maybe you'll find some error messages there which can narrow the problem down. You can view log files in Console, located in /Applications/Utilities.

Have you tried to check (and maybe repair) the file rights. You can do this with disk utility.

About Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions feature

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yes rean disk utility first fixed all sorts of problems there gonna look at console now – mcgrailm May 23 '12 at 20:37
logs says "PreferencePanes folder is missing" I guess that can't be fixed without re install ? – mcgrailm May 23 '12 at 20:46
To be honest i am not sure. Haven't tried to delete my prefs folder :). Maybe you can use Time Machine to restore the folder? – Pfitz May 23 '12 at 20:50
ha good point , doubt they had time machine running but thats a good thing to try thanks for your help – mcgrailm May 23 '12 at 20:52
just checked: directory for system PrefPanes is : /System/Library/PreferencePanes – Pfitz May 23 '12 at 20:54

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