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Activity Monitor columns are gone

Just opened Activity Monitor and no columns show. Yes, they are selected in the View menu.

MacBook Pro Retina

Posted on Oct 8, 2019 2:38 PM

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Posted on Oct 8, 2019 5:24 PM

Solved with a little help from my "friends" etresoft and dialabrain.

Delete the activity app preferences plist:

~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.ActivityMonitor.plist

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Solved with a little help from my "friends" etresoft and dialabrain.

Delete the activity app preferences plist:

~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.ActivityMonitor.plist

Thank you! I had the same issue and deleting ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.ActivityMonitor.plist did the trick.

Activity Monitor columns are gone