I cannot change the city in the Weather widget on the Dashboard but it says "No cities found" if I type in any city.
Tried deleting the Dashboard and Weather Widget .PLISTs and restarting but it didn't work. Set up my network connection anew but no dice. Creating a new user didn't help either.
Model: MacBook Pro Retina 13" MGX72
OS: Yosemite (v10.10.1)
MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014), OS X Yosemite (10.10.1), MGX72
Apparently, it was a temporary server outage. Admins, please close this thread as it is no longer relevant/valid.
What application did you use to open, modify and save the js file?
Thanks
Any text editor can be used. Either navigate to the directory in Finder and open the file, or open Terminal and type:
> open -a TextEdit /Library/Widgets/Weather.wdgt/Weather.js
OK, I know this sound stupid. I deleted the weather widget from Dashboard, changed Cupertino to Sitka, then installed the weather widget back into dashboard, but nothing has changed. What did I do wrong? The referenced web page is in German and my German is very lacking. I must not have done the changes correctly. Can you post the lines that need to be changed? Thanks
Not a stupid question at all. The key that you missed was that Dock needs to be restarted. This can be done by restarting the whole computer, or by typing the following command in Terminal:
> killall Dock
Doesn't work for me. "San Jose, CA" doesn't work. It keeps showing "San Jose, San Jose (Costa Rica)" 😟
Carole, this is a new problem that started around 19 Sept. 2015.
It is apparently not a problem with Max OS, but a problem with the Yahoo server no longer supplying the data. Perhaps Apple had a fall-out with Yahoo..... who knows. No idea whether anyone is working to solve the issue or not. This is a "built-in" dashboard widget supplied with the OSX. So Apple is in some way responsible for getting it to work. Really too bad because it works/worked very well with reliable data and good graphic design; was better than most other such weather widgets.
Widgets which have not been erased still work, apparently! But if you erase it and place a new one on the dashboard, then it will show a default location such as Cupertino. IF you still have a working widget on the dashboard, DO NOT erase it. (You won't get it back.) In case you are in the input mode on the reverse side trying to inout another city and get the customary error, then the way to recover the previous city setting is to do "cmd R".
I just hope that Apple gets on this and communicates what is going on.
Same problem here. I tried the solution suggested above with an Italian location, but it didn't work. Widget appears like in the picture. Changed the setting back to Cupertino, but no change again. Hope Apple's comes out with a definitive solution.
Same problem here.
I think it's due to the fact that Apple is killing off Dashboard in El Capitan. They want us to use the notification center.
Hello world, The problem apparently was fixed. Please check. For my side, now you can set the place or city without problem. Regards.🙂
That's true, thanks ! it works also for me.
Byebye
Here as well, thanks for the info! 🙂
Thanks for this very positive news !
Indeed, we are back in business.
Yep. It's working again.🙂
It took someone over a week to figure out which server needed to be rebooted. 😟
The “No Cities Found” in Dashboard Weather Widget display arises again.
Right now (27 FEB 2016) the weather widget Has again stopped functioning for new or changes for city/zip code entries once again – it is not working only response is "No cities found."
Time for Yahoo and the Weather Channel to reboot their servers?
"No cities found" in Dashboard Weather Widget
