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Q: Clicking on the dashboard icon opens up the dashboard briefly, and then it opens up Scrabble in Chrome. How do I get it to operate properly?

Clicking on the dashboard icon opens up the dashboard briefly, and then it opens up Scrabble in Chrome. How do I get it to operate properly?

MacBook Air, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), Time Capsule 1T

Posted on Aug 13, 2013 1:25 AM

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  • by nbar,

    nbar nbar Aug 13, 2013 2:41 AM in response to kofiblanko
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    Aug 13, 2013 2:41 AM in response to kofiblanko

    Do you have a  third party scrabble widget/ chrome gaming widget enabled? If so....

     

    Open Finder.

    From the Menu Bar, click Go > Go to Folder...

     

    Copy the following  bolded path and paste it into the finder window:

     

    ~/Library/Widgets/

     

    Copy the listed widgets and post in your reply, or identify the widget giving you problems and remove it. See if the problem persists.

  • by nbar,

    nbar nbar Aug 13, 2013 2:42 AM in response to nbar
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    Aug 13, 2013 2:42 AM in response to nbar

    Also, upgrade to 10.8.4

  • by kofiblanko,

    kofiblanko kofiblanko Aug 13, 2013 7:03 AM in response to nbar
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    Aug 13, 2013 7:03 AM in response to nbar

    Screen Shot 2013-08-13 at 1.57.47 PM.png

     

    This is what the Widgets folder looks like. I don't see anything to do with scrabble and neither do I see the widget for the Time Capsule Backup Log

  • by nbar,

    nbar nbar Aug 13, 2013 7:57 AM in response to kofiblanko
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    Aug 13, 2013 7:57 AM in response to kofiblanko

    This is the System widgets folder, not the user widgets folder.

     

    ~/Library/Widgets


    Not /Library/Widgets

  • by Linc Davis,Solvedanswer

    Linc Davis Linc Davis Aug 13, 2013 5:10 PM in response to kofiblanko
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    Aug 13, 2013 5:10 PM in response to kofiblanko

    Back up all data.

    In the Finder, hold down the option key and select

    Go Library

    from the menu bar. From the Library folder, move the following item to the Trash, if it exists:

     

    • Caches/com.apple.dashboard.client
    and move the following items to the Desktop:
    • Preferences/com.apple.dashboard.client.plist
    • Preferences/com.apple.dashboard.plist

     

    Log out, log back in, and test. If you still have the issue, put the items on the Desktop back where they came from and post again. Otherwise, delete the items.

  • by MartineJack,

    MartineJack MartineJack Jul 2, 2016 6:52 PM in response to kofiblanko
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    Jul 2, 2016 6:52 PM in response to kofiblanko

    I do have the same problem but it opens in Safari. I am on Mac OS X 10.11.5. Been doing so since I play Scrabble on Facebook. Can't use my Dashboard because of this. Can't apply the solution above because no elements name com.apple.dashboard... exist.

  • by Eric Root,

    Eric Root Eric Root Jul 3, 2016 8:38 AM in response to MartineJack
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    Jul 3, 2016 8:38 AM in response to MartineJack

    You might want to consider starting a new discussion. Since this one is a couple of years old, less people are likely to look at it. You can link to this one. Post in the El Capitan community.

     

    Are you looking in your user Library?

     

    Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J.  When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder.  Select Library and then follow Linc's suggestion.