OSX notification center widgets gone

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OSX notification center widgets gone

Hi,

since the upgrade to El Capitan all my notification center widgets have gone. When opening notification center in the Today view I only get the current weather and the calendar but everything else is gone. Even if going to edit there's no more widgets so nor the widgets from third party apps nor the default ones like the world time, I don't get offered any of those. I can remove the weather and the calendar one and add them again but that's all. When going to the dashboard and then to the dashboard edit mode (to add widgets) they are all there, but they are not in the notification center.

Any idea how to get them back into there?

Thanks

Carsten

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.1)

Posted on Nov 10, 2015 12:43 PM

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Answer 1

Nov 16, 2015 5:28 AM in response to chaibach

I have the same problem. I don't see the Weather widget, the World Clock, the calculator nothing and I am not getting an option to add them either when i click on "Edit".

Please help!

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Nov 16, 2015 5:54 AM in response to hemantvelury

I found the answer here: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/210175/my-today-extensions-in-el-capita n-are-all-missing. The problem are the extensions. You probably also don't have 'Today' or 'Finder' in there in the extensions system settings, do you? The issue is the new System Integrity Protection (SIP) introduced with El Capitan. For some reason it seems to prevent adding the extensions during the upgrade process. On my side I even couldn't send files via attachment from the Finder. The following procedure helped and all functionality is back now.

Reboot in Recovery mode (CMD+R at the chime)
From the recovery menu pick Terminal
Run this command to (temporarily) disable SIP: csrutil disable
Reboot into El Capitan
Verify that the extensions are back in the sidebar and in system preferences
Reboot in Recovery mode again
At the Terminal re-enable SIP with run csrutil enable
Reboot back into El Capitan. Everything should still be back and all is well.

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Answer 3

Dec 8, 2015 12:32 PM in response to chaibach

thank you very much for sharing; been looking for some clear answers!

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