Disappearing Dashboard...

[SoLibertyDies]

Hey guys.

I upgraded to leopard the day it came out and I've had no problems until now.

I booted up today and when I opened dashboard, all my widgets were gone.

I try to re-add them, and dashboard simply closes and doesn't add anything.

Ideas?

 

[72930]

Try restarting, and repairing disk permissions (in Disk Utility)

 

[SoLibertyDies]

I tried both sadly. no luck.

 

[SoLibertyDies]

I checked through the apple site and found nothing on it. there's no pref file to reset for dashboard. hm...

 

[eenu]

do you use .Mac?

That erased my widgets.

 

[SoLibertyDies]

come to think of it I had just chosen to sync my widgets to .mac...

I unchecked that one and it's still not accepting them back on.

are you still having this problem or do you have a fix?

 

[SoLibertyDies]

in case anyone comes across this problem themselves I found a fix-

I created a new user on my mbp. widgets were working on this one. so I put in my .mac info and synced the.mac dashboard to that one. then logged into mine and synced it there.

bam.

widgets have returned.

 

[SCStevens04]

I'm having the same problem with a missing dashboard/ widgets but don't have .Mac to sync with. Any other ideas? I've tried adding new widgets, creating new ones... nothing.

 

[SoLibertyDies]

sounds like your problem may be a little different, as I'm almost positive mine was cause by .mac.

have you gone through all the generic deleting preference files and rebooting and repairing permissions?