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12 December 2005

OS X Tiger - Mac Help stops working

Posted by Mikhail Esteves under: OS X; Tips .

After doing a 10.4.2 update, Mac Help just stopped working. This problem is easy to solve.

$ rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.helpui/

And the help system will work just fine!

17 January 2006 at 3:34 pm.

What exactly do I do with this string
“$ rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.helpui/”
????

I’m an age-ing ex-programmer, so if you tell me what to do and where, I can do it.

Thank you,
Hilary

18 January 2006 at 12:26 am.

Hilary: Open up “Terminal” from the “Utilities” folder, paste the string into the command prompt and press return. That’s about it :)