Recover dashboard sticky?

I would like to know this too.

I had the same issue and did some Spotlight investigatin'. They're stored within your Dashboard Stickies preference file:

/Users/[you]/Library/Preferences/widget-com.apple.widget.stickies.plist

I've had my stickies disappear twice, once when my computer panicked while in stickies and again when I migrated to Leopard. I've tried looking in the "Package Contents" but with no success. I've also looked for any trace of the stickies from Dashboard, and no luck with that either. Someone has to know where the actual text of the stickies are stored, and hopefully the user can access them. I tried moving the prefs, but that didn't work, and I've tried restarting Dashboard, neither have worked.

Anyone know?

-Brian

Hi i had the same problem but i only found this solution with Time Machine:

BEWARE: you can only recover stickies that you have not closed- so if you accidently closed/deleted a sticky this solution might not be possible..
I know this works if you deleted text from a sticky and want it back... worked for me!

First of all exit the Dashboard and do not open it again until you login in the end of the guide!

1. Go to folder user(your username)/library/preferences/
2. find the file file: widget-com.apple.widget.stickies.plist and single-click on it so its marked
3. Make a folder on your desktop named something like "Backup of dashboard stickie (TODAYS DATE)" and open the folder
4.you now have 2 finder windows open. Drag the file "widget-com.apple.widget.stickies.plist" and hold the alt-key and release the file in the "Backup of...." folder - now you have a backup (Make sure you copied the file and not moved it), then close the "Backup of..." folder.
5. In the finder window "Preferences" you have single clicked the file widget-com.apple.widget.stickies.plist - now open Time Machine.
6. Time Machine is in the folder "Preferences" with the file marked, now go as far back as you want to go to the date that the stickies where working. Choose Recover and Time Machine will now move the old file to today's folder.
7. Finder ask if you want to overwrite and you choose yes to this! (DONT START YOUR DASHBOARD YET!)
8. Log out your user and log in again - and voila it should have restored the missing text on your stickies....

Good Luck!

🙂

its wonderful that i wrote that guide for you because now i have the same problem again and i searched google for the answer because i couldnt remember what i did last time my dashboard stickies went blank! This time it was actually .Mac which made my stickies go blank... don't know how and why but ill try to recover them! 🙂

hope you can still use my guide

kind regards
Mark Barner
www.barner.dk

This is great!
I lost some really important data on my sticky but managed to recover it.

For those without Time Machine:
Open the plist using Omni Outliner, which will give the data in HTML format.
After which just use a HTML programme like Dreamweaver or NVU to convert it back to normal text.

Thank goodness I managed to recover the data! Thanks for the post!