Items disappear off dashboard after a few seconds
Hi everyone,
I recently upgraded to 10.4.11 and ever since my dashboard has died. When I press F12 the screen greys but all dashboard items are gone. So I proceed to click on the "plus" and discover that when I drag widgets on to the dashboard they appear for a few seconds (about 10 seconds) and then they automatically disappear. I did a search on this forum for similar problems and noticed that someone recommended I delete a few pref files as follows:
com.apple.dashboard.plist
com.apple.dashboard.client.plist
I did this but still the same problem remains (although I didn't restart OS-X after deleting the pref files - which I will do after posting this message).
Does anyone have any suggestions as to why this problem might be occurring?
Gitanjali
OK so I have restarted OS-X and the dashboard still does exactly the same thing as described in my initial message. Therefore, I'm going to try and re-apply OS-X 10.4.11 upgrade which I have downloaded from Apple's web site. Much like Windows XP service packs, I'm going to assume that I'll to reapply all recent security patches since 10.4.11 was released. I guess I'll just do a system update after 10.4.11 has finished installing and see what happens! Here goes nothing.....
Gitanjali
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