The Wacom preference pane should now be visible and back in action, from System Preferences.Select it, and delete it by pressing the backspace key, or from the menu Edit/Delete. Inside the mentioned HiddenPreferencePanes array element, you will now (hopefully) see a new line of text with the Wacom Tablet entry.Expand it (if you´re using Plist Edit Pro or XCode, click the small triangle to the left, you will see that it behaves kind of similar to opening a folder in Finder). In case you run into the issue of the Wacom tablet not showing up in the system preferences, or if there are missing items in the Wacom Tablet control panel, such as the pen, follow these steps to clear the preferences: 1.

There´s a line of text that says 'HiddenPreferencePanes' (for me, this was kind of like finding The Holy Grail, after 8 hours of troubleshooting).

In the Preferences folder, find the file called '', and open it with a plist editor ( for instance this free utility).

You can of course use your preferred method to browse to this folder.

The reason why I described the previous step so detailed, is that the user library folder is hidden by default, and to avoid any misunderstandings.

Open a Finder window, click your user home folder from the sidebar ( /Users/YOURUSERNAME/), press ⇧ + ⌘ + G, and type (or paste): Library/Preferences.

Download this driver from, install it and reboot.El Capitan, Macbook Pro with Sierra, and Mac Mini with Sierra). I´ve tried this on 3 Macs, and it worked flawless every time (Macbook Pro w. I finally figured out how to fix the mysterious invisible Wacom Preference pane!

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