Error code: Application "widget name" DashboardClient quit unexpectedly

Question

After installing my cloned backup onto my iBook I find my dashboard is not loading most of it's widgets but gives me error messages of:
"Application "Widget name"DashboardClient quit unexpectedly".
The cloned backup does likewise.
My Calculator and Calender widgets load normally !?!
I've tried downloading and reinstalling several of the offending widgets w/o solving the problem.
Oddly, a newly installed iStat Pro widget works !
Any answers, Ye Geniuses !!!
-Regards James V.

Answer 1

It may have been some pre-existing corruption on the volume or introduced during the cloning. Create a new account, name it "test" and see how your widgets work in that User acct? (That will tell if your problem is systemwide or limited to your User acct.) This account is just for test, do nothing further with it.
Open System Preferences >> Accounts >> "+" make it an admin account.
If the widgets do not load in a fresh account you may be able to repair this with the 10.4.2 Stand Alone Combo Update. If that is what you are running.
This is a fuller install, as opposed to an incremental "delta" update so it should overwrite any files that are damaged or missing. It does not matter if you have applied it before. It has worked well for many.
Remember to Verify Disk before update and repair permissions after update from /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.
BTW - are you still running 10.4.2 as your profile indicates and if so, why haven't you updated?
If the widgets do work in a fresh user go a little further with your user:
Navigate to these locations and trash the files in green. Then log out and back in, or restart.
~/Library/Caches/dashboardclient
~(yourhome)/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dashboard.plist
~(yourhome)/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dashboard.client.plist
-mj
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Message was edited by: macjack