Mac OS X: Applications Do Not Work Automatically If Utilities Folder Is Renamed

Symptom

Any process that would normally make automatic or transparent use of items in the Utilities folder may fail.

Printing from an application, for example, fails without an alert when the path to the Print Center is not found.


Solution

1. Select the folder formerly named Utilities.
2. Choose Show Info from the File menu.
3. In the name field of the Info window, change the name back to Utilities.

Note: If, for some reason, you cannot tolerate a folder named Utilities, you may open the utility applications manually. In the example used above, printing would succeed if the Print Center application were first opened manually. This is not a preferred course of action.