In OS X Mountain Lion i cant see any widgets when i click on the plus(+) button on the lfet bottom corner. the sceen just appears grey and blank.
all the built in widgets that were available in osx lion have now disappeared since i uprgaded.
Thanks for the help!
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a111
MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion
Mght just be corrupted preferences...
Open the Finder. From the Finder menu bar click Go > Go to Folder
Type this exactly as you see it here:
~/Library/Preferences
Ciick Go
Move the com.apple.dashboard.plist file from the Preferences folder to the Trash.
Then try Dashboard.
i did that and now i only have 4 default widgets on screen, i initially had 6 , now even those have disappeared. the widget screen is still blank.
pre-installed widgets are still missing. these are the screen shots
I am experiencing the exact same problem.
I have tried deleting the preferences and it didn't help.
Anyone have any other ideas?
Did you click on the plus sign at the bottom left to bring up the default widgets?
Click on the widget you wish to use or add too...
Yes I click the + and all I can see is the search bar at the top. The icons in the screenshot you provided are not there.
yes, the screenshot i posted above is after clicking on the plus sign. the screen just appears blank.
Same problem here. My "active" widgets were all fine, but when I click the "+" to add a new one, there are NONE.
Mountain Lion is proving a huge disappointment. Most of the promised features I want aren't working and then this!
I just found my old widgets by going to
User/Library/Widgets/
I moved them from the folder to the desktop then tried to install them again. An error told me to adjust my Security preferences to allow apps which weren't developed and distributed through the App store (like, the normal option - apple changed this without asking!)
Having done that I could reinstall my widgets just fine.
Stil missing the option to install the "original" Apple widgets though. Ironic. I know.
when i tried to install the widget the previous ones just dissapeared , now my dashboard has no widgets at all, the default set has dissapeared too. what security settings are u reffering to?
Ok... I found out how to fix this. Apple (clever!) didn't make the installer copy over widgets to the User folder.
Go to:
Macintosh HD > Library > Widgets
Copy all the files in there to:
User > Library > Widgets
Your widgets should return, although you may have to set them all up again.
If you can't see the Library folder you can reveal it using this app: http://tweaksapp.com/app/mountain-tweaks/
In System preferences you can choose "Security and Privacy"
Under that panel there is a section which says "Allow Applications Downloaded from:"
I chose... "Anywhere". This was the default setting before Apple started to try to force everyone to use their app store.
i did both the above things! but they still havent reappeared.. any idea what else i could do?
Unfortunately none of these have worked for me either.
My widgets are in my User/Library folder but it's not showing any of them...
I am also having this problem. The above suggested fix didn't work.
Mountain lion dashboard ( NO widgets on screen)
