Click on the equivalent close button at the bottom left screen corner to close the Widget Bar.Ĭlick on the "i" info button of any widget to customize it. Your Web browser takes you to the widget-download page on the Apple website.Ĭlick on the circled "X" close button on any widget to remove it from Dashboard. To download widgets and add them to Dashboard, click the Manage Widgets button and click on the "More Widgets" button at the bottom of the widget screen that appears. Use the arrows at both ends of the Widget Bar to scroll horizontally through the widgets.Ĭlick on a widget's icon in the Widget Bar to make the widget appear in Dashboard. Click on the circled "+" button at the bottom left screen corner to reveal the Widget Bar so you can view all the widgets installed on your computer.
Rearrange your current widgets by clicking and dragging them into a different sequence. To restart your Dashboard without having to restart the computer open Terminal (just type Terminal into the Spotlight search. For example, the weather widget has a configuration file called .plist.Īs it is likely you don’t have a Spotlight index of the old drive or OS X installation, I suggest using a free tool like EasyFind to find the files you are after. Then each widget has its own configuration file stored in: /Users//Library/Preferences/
The dashboard layout and configuration date is stored in: /Users//Library/Preferences/ The actual widgets are stored in: /Users//Library/Widgets/ Here’s how:Ĭopy the following files from your old OS or computer to the same location on the new OS or computer.
If you are manually transferring your configuration from one Apple computer to another, or from an old OS X installation to a new one (such as from Snow Leopard to Lion) you’ll likely want to transfer your dashboard configuration.
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