OS X Tiger – Mac Help stops working

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!

By Mikhail Esteves | December 12th, 2005 in OS X, Tips

2 Comments

HilaryJanuary 17th, 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

Mikhail EstevesJanuary 18th, 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 :)