From the dashboard I try to download a widget. Whatever widget I choose, I end up in http://www.apple.com/downloads/. At the end of the page there is a link to dasboard widgets and I can choose a widget again. But again when I click download: I get back to http://www.apple.com/downloads/.
How to download a widget?
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Looks like the download is broken; none of the widgets I tried will download for me either. Apple hasn't updated the Dashboard Widgets listing in a couple of years now, and apparently it's finally broken. Whether it will be fixed and if so when I don't know. You can try searching the web for an alternate download location for the widget, but many probably have been abandoned by their developers.
Regards.
Slightly off topic and with apologies to Leike9691.
Hello Varjak. What do you mean when you say that Downloads is broken. That the Apple system supplying widget downloads is broken. The reason I ask is that someone on another thread has problems with widget downloads and your reply here may relate. I'm not sure it would be correct to show it here but it is currently in the Mac App Store forum.
None of the download links from the Dashboard Widgets page Leike referenced:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/
seem to work. This would have nothing to do with the Mac App Store or any other download page from Apple, so if the other thread has to do with anything other than the downloads from that Widgets page, I would know nothing about such problems.
Regards.
Thank you for your kind interest. From what I can see it is only widget downloads from that page but I have no confirmation as yet.
I will link your answer to the OP and advise them to set up a new thread if they want to pursue it further.
Regards.
i would like to know the new thread if it's coming. I think as long the dashboard is working it's easy to keep the apple downloading site for the dashboard. Is's already there. But maybe the link is incorrect.
Can you download the widget directly from the developer's website?
I had intended that the other person would create the new thread but as of now there is no reply. I was (and still am) apologising to you for intruding on your thread. It was just that someone else had similar problems and I was trying to alert them. Sorry about any misunderstanding.
The pages were broken for a time yesterday, but it has been fixed in the mean time.
http://www.macrumors.com/2013/05/31/apples-dashboard-widget-download-site-for-os -x-broken/
Still Not Working today 01-06-2013 !
You should try looking fir it in
Really? Do you think I have't been there!?
You go to the Widget Download Page, and it allways redirects to http://www.apple.com/downloads/ when you try do download something!
Everyone is talking about it on macrumors http://www.macrumors.com/2013/05/31/apples-dashboard-widget-download-site-for-os -x-broken/
Perhaps you need to delete the browser cache. I just downloaded 3 different types of widgets from the site with no issues.
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Not working, tried 4 different browsers two completely different operating systems, two different machines and two different country networks, only explanation would be country geo location redirect by apple, so where are you from? I am from Portugal, Europe. This is not an isolated problem since I haven't start the original posts, and there's tons of people asking for the same at several apple forum pages all over the internet.
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Guess what I was right, its a GEO IP location blackout, Apple is not redirecting to the correct file download if you have an ip from Portugal, Germany, and I guess all Europe,. I have tried two USA proxy machines and with those it downloads correctly! Way to go Apple...!
carlos.v.gonzalez wrote:
Really? Do you think I have't been there!?
No one here knows where you have searched unless you tell us! Last count, none of the users and/or helpers (who are all volunteers) on these message boards are mind readers.
widget for dashboard won't download
