Can you go into your widget and do a ls -lR from the terminal and send the
results.
Thanks,
jl
> I just got two bits of information from this user:
> 1. "I'm using the Case-sensitive Journaled HFS+ file system. I've
> assumed that's a completely immaterial factor for most applications,
> though it is the only change I've made to my system. I am confident
> that the remainder of my system is standard."
> 2. "all the widgets [from apple.com] refuse to load, claiming the
> widget is invalid when I try to run it from Finder. I'm happy it's a
> consistent situation but a bit confused about why older widgets work
> but new one's do not."
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions? (I've already asked her to
> confirmed that Dock is specified in the "Open with:" section of the
> Get Info box.)
>
> Ben, I tried your suggestion. She emailed me the widget and it ran
> fine on my machine.
>
> Chuck
>
> At 1:35 PM -0700 8/8/06, Ben Kazez wrote:
>> Hi Chuck,
>>
>> Have you had her email you the widget? Perhaps for some reason her
>> machine is corrupting the download, which you might be able to see
>> by peeking inside the widget bundle.
>>
>> Ben
>>
>> On Aug 6, 2006, at 6:19 PM, Chuck Soper wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have a user that is getting the following message: "The file
>>> 'VelaClock.wdgt' is not a valid widget and you cannot install it"
>>> when double clicking on the unzipped widget. Older versions of
>>> VelaClock work fine.
>>>
>>> She says:
>>> - the behavior is consistent across all machines (PowerMac G5,
>>> Titanium Powerbook and 1.67 Mhz Aluminum Powerbook).
>>> - has Mac OS X 10.4.7 and uses uses Safari for downloading (on all
>>> machines).
>>> - confirmed that the Dock was specified in the "Open with:" section
>>> of the Get Info box.
>>> - is able to successfully download and install other widgets from apple.com.
>>>
>>> I can't reproduce the behavior and no other users have reported a
>>> similar issue. She's re-downloaded the widget a number of times and
>>> I even emailed her a zipped copy.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know what I should suggest? Any ideas?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Chuck
>
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