Widget won't updatae.

For example the weather widget. I flip it over put in my zip code or city, click search and click done. But whenever I open the weather widget it always fails to give me the weather for San Francisco rather than the East Coast city that I live in.

After you type your zip or city, hit your enter key (you meant this instead of "click search" right?) and hit Done, does the Weather widget report the correct data? If so -- and you close the Weather widget -- then yes, it will forget your setting and next time you open it will show you a default city based on information it saved when you registered your Mac. The trick is to keep the Weather widget open in your Dashboard.
(or, if I misunderstood you and the problem appears ftaer you hit Done, can you tell us what city or zip code you are trying to enter?)

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I have added pages to my site but for some reason my menu widget won't update to add the new pages. I have tried saving and going out of the program. Can I force it to somehow refresh?

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No I didn't do a manual configuration or exclude pages. It' says it's listing all pages.
Not sure what the problem is. The website is over 50 pages, could that be an issue?

Rss widget won't update

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Apple Mail, Google Reader, etc. all get the update but the iWeb RSS Widget refuses. I also took the widget out and put it back with no success.

Here is my trick to get my rss feed fixed:
Make a change in the Inspector that only affects the blog (but all entries), like disabling comments and right away enabling them again in the rss window of the Inspector (I don't know for sure but this could erase your existing comments); that will return the images in the right places or put them back if they disappeared altogether. This will also clean up the rss feed.
Disabling comments crashes iWeb, so it is important to enable it immediately after having disabled it, so you click in fact twice in the check box, off and on again.
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Hi,
For some reason some of my widgets (which are enabled in the Widget Manager) won't launch. Morever, they have generic widget black icons (maybe this is okay thugh). When I click on them I get the Basso beep as if there's an error.
The widgets in question are:
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Flight tracker
Translation
Unit Convertor
World Clock
Any idea what could be going on? I've repaired permissions already.
Thanks,
Pat

Hi,
I've fixed it.
Sadly it takes some effort to fix.
I installed Tiger onto an external partition then dragged the faulty widgets across from the new install to the old one and they work again now.
What's interesting is that the old widgets that had not been working had a .wdgt extension whereas the new replacing ones didn't
So it was nothing to do with fonts, however here'e the list i asked for previously. System>Library>Fonts and Library>Fonts on a standard ENglish language install:
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Times.dfont
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LastResort.dfont
Geeza Pro Bold.ttf
Helvetica.dfont
OsakaMono.dfont
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LucidaGrande.dfont
Geeza Pro.ttf
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Osaka.dfont
AppleGothic.dfont
AquaKanaBold.otf
Helvetica LT MM
Times LT MM
and
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Apple Symbols.ttf
Didot.dfont
Webdings
Skia.dfont
Cochin.dfont
Optima.dfont
Arial
HelveticaNeue.dfont
Arial Rounded Bold
AmericanTypewriter.dfont
Chalkboard.ttf
Kai.dfont
Comic Sans MS
Arial Black
Baskerville.dfont
Futura.dfont
Apple Chancery.dfont
Georgia
Courier New
Andale Mono
Arial Narrow
Hoefler Text.dfont
Verdana
Papyrus.dfont
Brush Script
GillSans.dfont
BigCaslon.dfont
MarkerFelt.dfont
Trebuchet MS
Times New Roman
ChalkboardBold.ttf
Herculanum.dfont
Copperplate.dfont
Zapfino.dfont
Impact
Thanks for the help Mihalis. By the way, all my CrashReporter folders were empty.
Pat

A particular widget won't work for a particular user

I recently upgraded from 10.3.9 to 10.4.6. After trying out various widgets I have hit on a curious problem: the Unit Converter widget that is installed with the system will not work on my user account. It works on other user accounts. It works on a new "test" user account. But on my account, the widget just seems to hang: it appears, but the menus stay empty and I cannot type anything into the number fields. On other accounts this is the way it looks before it has loaded. And the same thing happens on both computers! All other widgets (Apple and third-party) seem to work fine on my account.
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But I have now found the solution. The problem was being caused by a custom number format that I had inherited from the Panther installation. In Tiger it's impossible to set a custom number format - the number format is set automatically for each region and it's impossible to change it. But it was possible to set a custom number format in Panther and it is recognized by Tiger. So I can either keep using my custom number format, in which case Unit Converter won't work, or set one of the standard number formats, in which case Unit Converter works (I see that now it actually launches, it has also created its plist file: eveidently the file didn't exist before because the widget had never got as far as creating it).
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Can't figure this one out. Widgets that come with Leopard run fine. Any I download won't launch. I have 4 user accounts, all have same problem. I created a new user account and the downloaded widgets works fine.
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4. I enabled Dashboard with DashboardSwitch. (I believe it's the case that if you use this program to disable Dashboard, you cannot start Dashboard though the Dock until it's been enabled again with DashboardSwitch.)
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Action 1:      (1) In the Finder, choose Go > Go To Folder
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                     (3) Click Go
                                                      -- OR --
Action 2:     Hold down the option (alt) key when using the Go menu. The Library folder is listed just                            below the Home folder.
After opening the Preferences folder, the file that you want to locate for k-notes is named
widget-com.rakoth.lichlord.widget.k-notes.plist
After you locate it make note of the byte size of the file. Now, with the Preferences folder still open, open Time Machine and go back in time until you see a big jump in the file size. That will be your uncorrupted plist. Restore it and close Time Machine.
Then Restart your computer.
After following this procedure I brought up Dashboard and my blank k-notes were now refilled with the previous text and color that occupied them before I had to restore the OS.
This procedure also worked for Sticky notes, which in the Preference folder are named
widget-com.apple.widget.stickies.plist

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