How to Reset Dashboard on Mac OSX Leopard

By: PowAxx | August 23, 2009 at 10:18 am | Posted in OSX
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About: Is your Mac OSX Leopard Dashboard having issues like freezing, stop responding or hangs when you open it?

This topic is a solution if your Mac OSX Leopard Dashboard is not working properly. This procedure will reset the settings of your Dashboard to a default settings.

1. Go to ~/Library/Preferences/

2. Delete the following files:

  • com.apple.dashboard
  • com.apple.dashboard.client

3. Restart the unit and access the Dashboard again to see if it was fixed.

2 comments
  1. Why not just open Terminal, and use:
    defaults delete com.apple.Dashboard

  2. @Joey October; both options work well. Generally, non-technical users will have issues with Dashboard and have no idea what you’ve just suggested…

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