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After update up 10.6.2 I’ve noticed that my menu bar had all of it’s icons missing, including clock, istat, etc. Re-downloaded the update from Apple  is not helps…

The problem in spotlight fix – If you are disabled the spotlight icon by modifying the Search.bundle in /System/Library/CoreServices

Here  instructions how to fix it:

• Replace Search.bundle from your backup in  /System/Library/CoreServices ( click here to download a default version ).
  Note: Maybe you have to delete a current file and then copy a new one.

  Launch Activity Monitor and kill the SystemUIServer.
  

• MacOS 10.6.2 Menu Bar is working again
  

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3 Responses to “10.6.2 Caused an Empty Menu Bar if Spotlight icon was disabled”

1. 1. David Says:
   November 19th, 2009 at 1:33 AM

   Great! That fixed it. Thanks!
   Now, how do I disable spotlight again?

2. 2. Kirill Says:
   December 8th, 2009 at 1:33 PM

   If you want to still be able to keep all of the functionality of the menu bar spotlight search but have white space for the spotlight in the menu bar you can replace the icon image file with a blank one or your own custom icon.
   The image file is
   /System/Library/CoreServices/Search.bundle/Contents/Resources/MDSearchMenuIcon.pdf

   Steps:
   1. Navigate to folder
   cd /System/Library/CoreServices/Search.bundle/Contents/Resources

   2. Open folder
   open .

   3. Make copy for backup
   4. Give yourself read write permission on parent folder and image file
   5. Open image in Adobe Illustrator
   6. Modify icon to liking
   7. Save
   8. Restart SystemUIServer

   killall SystemUIServer

3. 3. dataquent Says:
   January 1st, 2010 at 9:10 PM

   How to Disable Spotlight and remove Spotlight icon from menu.

   http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20091030173117381

   To turn Spotlight Indexing off and on in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, and to remove the Menu Bar Icon, follow these steps…

   To turn Spotlight Indexing off in open Terminal and run this command:
   sudo mdutil -a -i off
   To turn Spotlight Indexing back on, repeat the above command, but change off to on. To remove the menu bar icon, run this Terminal command:
   sudo chmod 600 /System/Library/CoreServices/Search.bundle/Contents/MacOS/Search
   You’ll then to restart the menu bar with killall SystemUIServer to see the icon vanish.

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