Widgets - wonky!

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Colin Rose - 16 Aug 2005 16:18 GMT

Greetings

My Translation Widget and Unit Converter widgets

have gone wonky - the interface no longer works on one user account
on my Mac (but they work fine on the other user account).
For example: the translation widget does not allow one to select any
languages, nor to click into the box to enter text. Strange.

Does anyone have a suggestion as to how to fix this? Apple does not
seem to allow one to remove the default widgets, so I am not sure how to
re-install them.

Cheers

Colin

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Jason - 17 Aug 2005 01:30 GMT

> Greetings
>
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> For example: the translation widget does not allow one to select any
> languages, nor to click into the box to enter text. Strange.

If they work in another user account, then it's usually a matter of preference
files...

> Does anyone have a suggestion as to how to fix this? Apple does not
> seem to allow one to remove the default widgets, so I am not sure how to
> re-install them.

Well, you could go into Terminal, sudo -s, cd to /Library/Widgets and manually
rm the offending widgets, and run the 10.4.2 combo updater, but if they're
both working in another user account on the same machine, it's unlikely to fix
the problem.

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Colin Rose - 17 Aug 2005 05:39 GMT

> If they work in another user account, then it's usually a matter of
> preference files...

Ahh - great - deleted the widget-com.apple.widget.translation.plist pref
file under Users / Preferences, and that one is working again.

Cheers and thanks

Colin

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Heath Raftery - 19 Aug 2005 01:25 GMT

>> If they work in another user account, then it's usually a matter of
>> preference files...

> Ahh - great - deleted the widget-com.apple.widget.translation.plist pref
> file under Users / Preferences, and that one is working again.

For your information, removing/reloading the widgets
really isn't that hard. You realise you can hit the '+'
button at the bottom left of the Dashboard interface to
reveal a close box for each widget? And to remove the
widget from Dashboard completely, just find it in either
/Library/Widgets, /System/Library/Widgets or
~/Library/Widget.

Finally, to reload a widget, make it active and hit
Apple-R.

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Widgets - wonky!