weather widget not working

actually the widget link i posted was suggested by bdaqua. post 2 and still learning ;^)

http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/information/weatherundergrounddashboard weatherwidget.html

You may also need to double check the permissions are set correctly. I don't know if this is something that running permissions repair with Disk Utility will take care of, or if you need to do it by hand. I notice all mine are set to owner system and group wheel on the original folder and all the files inside that I bothered checking.

first thing i did was to verify and repair disc permissions to try to fix the weather widget. that is about the extent of my trouble shooting capabilities. it didn't work so found myself here after googling the problem. the wunderground weather widget works for me but prefer the original widget. i am glad to see it is a real problem and not something i did on my own to mess it up.

Limnos is hard at work on the problem as we speak, I feel certain he'll have more info on this later. 🙂

Isn't there any way to do this without having access to a Macintosh running 10.6?

After all that gnashing of teeth,

The standard OS X 10.5 Weather Widget is working now!

I made NO changes to my system. I wonder who fixed it?

Did any of you posters send emails to Accuweather?

Yep, it's working again all on it's own, thanks. 🙂

yee ha! thanks to whomever fixed it.

after today i know more about weather widgets than i ever wanted to. 😁

Limnos is hard at work on the problem as we speak, I feel certain he'll have more info on this later. 🙂

Limnos couldn't get the fix to work this morning despite careful attention to setting up permissions as they were on the original Tiger version, but is wondering if that is because they were working on the servers and everything came up when I returned a few hours later. I think I may have gotten the fix to work, only because the widget is now working on my computer with the patched system, so at least it didn't break it when they all came back into service.

Yeah, after reading the prior fix and copy the files from my 10.6 Mac mini to my 10.5 MacBook, it started working again 🙂

Big Thank You to any and all involved fixing this feature 😀

Guys, I'm thinking the issue is NOT with our computers - mine suddenly started working again and I've done absolutely NOTHING to fix it! The fix must have been an online fix somewhere.

Yep, you guessed it! 🙂

But that one is never accurate.

There is something that we can do onn our computers...

I had the same problem recently with any city on "El capitan". After lots of debugging I observed that it has to do with the headers that the WidgetClient sends when request weather data and the chance that the returning data requires more than two TCP/IP packages. That's why sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, because it depends on the network connection.

I modified the Widget code and now it seems to work always. You can look at the solution at:

https://github.com/gonzalorodrigo/osxcalendarwidget