Widget missing - It is on backup drive. What do I drag

Widget missing - It is on backup drive when I boot from external drive. What do I drag and drop from external drive to iMac to get widget working on iMac? Thanks..

Those .plist files are used by many applications to hold customizations. That one you show for the application Dashboard contains your choices for the different widgets you use and will remember your settings for which widgets you want to be active.
Any changes you make to your Dashboard setting will be updated to that .plist file, for next time.
The .plist file is involved, but it does not contain the widgets themselves (which are like little web apps), but rather choices you make about which ones you choose to use and personal settings etc..
If you add a widget, then open Dashboard, that .plist should automatically get updated. You won't need to copy it over.

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Your hard drive has probably failed.

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What is the best backup drive to use to backup my windows xp pc and to transfer these files to my iMac i5 new in May 2011 and then to backup my i5 iMac?

Get something with both USB and Firewire connections, as big as you can afford. Format it Fat 32, plug it into the XP machine with USB, drag and drop the files you want to keep, plug it into the iMac with Firewire, drag and drop again. If you want to use it just to back up your Mac in future, reformat it Mac OS Extended and enable Time Machine. If you're likely to want to share the drive with Windows PCs in future, leave it Fat 32.

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What kind of "system backup" are you doing? Are you using Time Machine?

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I filled up my 1 TB back up drive so got a 3TB to move my video projects to. Do I have to move both the i photo videos and the projects to the 3 TB drive together some how. When can I delete them off the hard drive .
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Time machine said the partition on the backup drive I'm using for TM backups is full. What surprising is that according to OSX, there are 111 gb available on that partition & 121 gb used. Why do you think TM thinks it’s full?
Also, it only gave me the options of using another external drive or choosing to stop backing up certain files. Since the first backup that TM does is a full backup & the subsequent ones are incremental backups, I thought of deleting all the incremental backups, leaving the full backup, & then starting TM. Would that work, i.e. would it compare the files on the Mac to the full backup & then back up any changed or new files?
In any case, I didn’t get the chance to do that since all the old files were deleted & all that’s left is 1 successful backup from earlier today & 1 discontinued backup from today. Assuming that the successful backup from earlier today is an incremental, what should I do now? If I erase it, will TM do a full backup?
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I've had a quick chat on the phone with one of my people and they do know of such things but have stressed that this is only possible if Bluetooth is enabled or wifi and connected to a network which means someone on the same network has or was doing this - If it's bluetooth and lets say one of the friends sent you an app to sideload via bluetooth then consider this person to not be a friend - To fully clean your phone I would not recomend a factory reset I would in cases like this perform a system repair see below for details
This will factory reset your phone
Switch off your phone and unplug from Pc (Hold volume up and power for around 10 seconds)
Start PC Companion and select Support zone then Update my phone/tablet then in Blue Repair my phone/tablet and follow the onscreen instructions - When prompted connect your phone still switched off holding volume down or back button - This should start the repair or reformat process
If you are using Windows 8/8.1 or a 64bit operating system then adjust the settings for PC Companion and run in compatibility mode and chose Windows 7 or XP
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. Richard P. Feynman

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That is not the proper method. Here is the right way to do that:
Clone using Restore Option of Disk Utility
1. Open Disk Utility in the Utilities folder.
2. Select the destination volume from the left side list.
3. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
4. Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag
it to the Destination entry field.
5. Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to
the Source entry field.
6. Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
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I bought a new drive and need to get my Time Machine files off the old failed drive. I'm sure there are plenty of discussions about this but I can't find any. (I so dislike the new design for the support communities.)
The old drive sometimes lets me access TM so I want to take advantage of one of those times to get everything across. I know it is a very slow process if it can be done.
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Thanx

Jane Garcia wrote:
I may try Data Rescue but I may have another solution if I can make this work. I managed to get the backup drive to mount on my desktop--it's amazing what shaking the thing can do!--and it has two folders: Backups.backupdb and lost+found. I tried to copy the first one onto my desktop but it has 37,000 files and there isn't enough room.
If you've been backing-up your entire system, it should have several hundred thousand files, minimum.
The very existence of the lost+found folder means there's trouble.
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Doubtful it will work; if the backups are damaged, as they certainly appear to be, the copy will fail.
Also, if this works, doesn't that mean that any TM backups onto the new external drive will co-exist with the old folders as opposed to absorbing them into the new TM backups?
If the backup completes successfully (highly doubtful), you should be able to continue backing-up to the copied Backups.backupdb folder.
Your best bet is to simply put the old drive "on the shelf" and let TM start fresh on the new one. You can always view and restore from the old ones (at least from the un-corrupted parts of it), via the Browse... option, per Time Machine - Frequently Asked Question #17.

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It just means it is not available.. I think.. apple doesn't exactly give you a guide to errors.
What OS is on the MBA.. Yosemite??
That would be absolute bog standard problem.
Same as here.. Time Capsule OSStatus error 28
Even with older OS apple introduced some poor networking decisions at lion which have carried through.
1. Try a simple reboot of the TC.. then try a reboot of the whole network.
No luck.
2. Reset the TC to factory and redo the setup from MBA.
Use short names no spaces and pure alphanumeric names and passwords.. nothing more than 20 characters.
Use WPA2 Personal security only and password that conforms to the above.
No luck
3. Make sure the wireless is set to IPV6=Link-local only in the MBA.
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What happens to Time Machine if my backup drive isn't connected?

I've got Time Machine set up to back up a MacOS Leopard Macbook to an external drive. Because of the way this computer is used, it's usually not plugged into the backup drive.
What does Time Machine do in this situation? Does it keep track of all the changes since it last saw the backup drive, or does it only keep one increment between the last backup and the current one? Does it still automatically back up, or do I have to prompt it?
I understand that Lion has a feature that keeps local backups until it sees the backup drive again, but it's not clear to me (because Apple updates the Time Machine support documents to reflect only the latest version of the OS...) whether something like this happens in Leopard.

Sockatume wrote:
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Time machine will recommence back ups from the last point backed up.
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Apple updates the Time Machine support documents to reflect only the latest version of the OS.***
It should scan and pick up alterations to previous back ups as a matter of course.
For all matters dealing with Time machine Google 'Pondini' and a variety of options about it will appear.
For trouble shooting ...Time machine. http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html

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I am looking to purchase a backup drive. The size 2GB, I am considering the Apple wireless drive but should I look at any other manufacturer?
I am also going to use this drive initially to restore the erased data from my second internal drive. This also leads me to ask what recovery software should I consider.
I would appreciate any feedback.
mel

Many people on these forums use OWC (www.macsales.com) Mercury Elite Pro series. IMHO that is all that I will buy, high quality and reasonable price. You can find them by clicking
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My Imac doesn't recognize my backup drive anymore,what can i do?

Unfortunately, that usually means the drive has died although it doesn't mean some other hardware failure or even software failure (in some cases.)
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I just bought a new Seagate external drive and made my first backup. Their website said the best way to disconnect it is to drag the desktop icon to the trash. I apparently ruined my previous backup drive (Adata) by right-clicking and selecting "Eject" from the context menu. This same "Eject" option is available for the Seagate drive and I read on this forum that it's a safe way to disconnect the drive. However, after using my Adata drive for a couple of years and getting frequent warnings saying the it hadn't been ejected properly after the previous backup, last week it just wouldn't work anymore and backups simply failed. So I'm not feeling confident about how to safely disconnect my new hard drive... Thanks for any advice.

Things can happen to drives after a few years of year of use, even if the hardware itself is OK. The directory structure can get corrupted, etc. Choosing "eject" rather than dragging the icon to the trash isn't going to make a difference. I think Seagate tells users to do it because it's perhaps the simplest, most obvious method. Disk Utility can usually fix minor problems with your directory structure or volume info.
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Time Machine icon on backup drive is missing

I just got a new external backup drive to replace my old one that was full. Once mounted on the desktop the drive icon had the well known orange icon with the FireWire symbol on it.
After my first backup to the new drive I expected it to get the Time Machine icon automatically, but this did not happen. My old Time Machine backup drive had the green Time Machine icon on it with the arrow.
Can anyone tell me why this did not happen with the new drive, and how I can get the time Machine icon attached to the drive. I would like to have that icon attached to the backup drive so I can differentiate that drive from two other external drives I use for other purposes.

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