why has the movie widget stopped working?

Hey Linda,

Thanks for your time. I'm ready to simply give up on this.

I followed your directions exactly:

After the return, I found the var gcurrPostalCode = line, cursored the semicolon , pressed 'i' and entered my zip:

I then pressed ESC and typed :wq

I quit Terminal.

I did a Restart (Not Logout)

Went to Dashboard and I get the black rectangle. (in the past, the widget sometimes needs to be replaced. I did that just in case. Nada.)

Am I missing a step?

Jan

Jan,

I don't know exactly, but I'm thinking it might have something to do with all the editing of Movies.js and something got deleted, or moved, etc within the original file.

I don't know why you have those 4 lines above Line 40 and my file does not have those lines like that

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var gCurrPostalCode = "92103";

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Or, if you replaced the widget -like you mention-- "(in the past, the widget sometimes needs to be replaced. I did that just in case. Nada.)" and you did it after you edited the Movies.js file, you just undid your editing. Movies.js is INSIDE of the Movies.wdgt (app/folder). If you replaced the Movies.wdgt with a backup AFTER you edited Movies.js, then the below suggestions will just be extra work.

IF you replaced the widget (Movies.wdgt) after editing, then just start over with the Vim instructions or the Without Vim instructions. (my last two posts)

IF you replaced the movies.wdgt BEFORE you edited the Movies.js, then you can try this -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Do you have a Time Machine backup? Or a clone of your system?

I'm thinking you can copy the Movies.wdgt file from your backup and replace the one in the Library/Widgets folder.

I just set up this system, so I haven't done a Time Machine backup. But you need to View your Time Machine backup, go back to the date that was before the Movies widget problem. Because I can't currently test this myself, I don't remember if Time Machine has the Go option on the Menu. If it doesn't, then you'll have to navigate yourself there.

Then from a Finder Window inside your Time Machine view (the Star Wars like window - lol!) go to the widgets folder ---> From the Menu, choose Go, Go to Folder... In that box TYPE: /Library/Widgets/Movies.wdgt

A Finder window will open with the Movies.wdgt highlighted. Copy that file (it's like a mini-app, it's really a "folder" not a file). Command + C --should do it. A option box will ask you where. For now, safest place would be your desktop.

Or, if it will let you, just copy (restore) it right to the /Library/Widgets/ Folder.

Then you can exit Time Machine.

If you copied to desktop --> Open a Finder window and go to your desktop and copy that file. Then navigate to the /Library/Widgets/Movies.wdgt (just like above) and Paste the file (have to use the Edit, Paste. sometimes Command + V will do it). It should ask you for your password. --If TM restored the file you can try fixing the Movies widget again.

If you have a Clone, you can boot into that clone and navigate your main hard drive to copy and paste that file.

Once you have replaced the edited one with an old backup file, then you can try all the steps again. Perhaps use PorscheFanatic's NON-vim instructions, like in my last post. I did do it that way, but it is an easier way.

Hopefully some of this helps!

Thanks Linda,

I replaced the widget after the original didn't work (replaced meaning deleting it from the Dashboard then re adding it?)

I do have Time Machine (has saved my *** a couple times).

When I get the chance I'll look back before the El Cap instal and see if I can capture the previous widget.

I'll let you know how it goes.

Need a break from this now.

Linda,

As you suggested, restored the widget from Timemachine--from before I started trying to fix it.

Followed your instructs (forgot the ESC first time around--****!).

Anyway: BINGO! All systems go.

Thanks for your patience.

Jan

Cool! Glad that I could help!

Linda, you're a ROCK STAR !!

...AND, I suspect, an editor!

I'm an editor, and considered having a go at Porsche's great instructions, but I'm a newbie at Terminal, too, and I didn't feel I understood it enough to get involved. You made great sense of it. I kept wanting to add "1. " at the beginning of the commands, as Porsche seemed to be suggesting, but I was pretty sure that wasn't right.

Anyway, power to the editors!

And thank you, too, Porsche, for your instructions!

Weasel|ADAPT,

Thank you! It's nice to be a Rock Star! LOL!

Like minds and all that! Yes, I am an editor! Cool that you noticed that.

Power to the editors! So glad I could help.

Cheers!

Interesting, Weasel guessed Editor. I was thinking more along the lines of a 5th-grade teacher.

At least that's what I felt like I needed (including cookies & a nap!!).

Yeah, you rock kiddo.