Jim Bergerac
Registered
I hope somebody can help me on this, as I've searched in vain for a solution to this problem.
Following a recent update to Tiger, everything was going pretty much okay until I started fiddling with Dashboard. I installed loads of widgets from the Apple site, and then went to delete most of them because they were cluttering up my screen and proving less than useful. I then ran a software update (Mon 9 Jan) to get new java versions (I think, I wasn't paying too much attention). Shortly after restart, I moused over the dock and the entire dock froze, followed by the system, necessitating another restart via the power switch. I didn't get any kind of restart message when everything had loaded, but now both Dock and Dashboard are broken.
In more detail, Dashboard does absolutely nothing, either when clicked in the dock or via the key that I set to activate it. I have also lost the ability to right-click any of the dock icons to bring up contextual menus and force quit option - which is proving highly irritating when I'm trying to write music. I've also tried trashing both dock and dashboard perferences, neither of which helps, and the dashboard icon is now a blank white square in the dock.
Thanks in advance.
Powerbook g4 1.25 15"
2gb ram
OS X 10.4.3
Lacie d2 extreme hd running via usb 2.0
M-Audio firewire sound interface
Following a recent update to Tiger, everything was going pretty much okay until I started fiddling with Dashboard. I installed loads of widgets from the Apple site, and then went to delete most of them because they were cluttering up my screen and proving less than useful. I then ran a software update (Mon 9 Jan) to get new java versions (I think, I wasn't paying too much attention). Shortly after restart, I moused over the dock and the entire dock froze, followed by the system, necessitating another restart via the power switch. I didn't get any kind of restart message when everything had loaded, but now both Dock and Dashboard are broken.
In more detail, Dashboard does absolutely nothing, either when clicked in the dock or via the key that I set to activate it. I have also lost the ability to right-click any of the dock icons to bring up contextual menus and force quit option - which is proving highly irritating when I'm trying to write music. I've also tried trashing both dock and dashboard perferences, neither of which helps, and the dashboard icon is now a blank white square in the dock.
Thanks in advance.
Powerbook g4 1.25 15"
2gb ram
OS X 10.4.3
Lacie d2 extreme hd running via usb 2.0
M-Audio firewire sound interface