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Widgets gone and won't come back! Help!
My widgets are gone and when I click nothing appears. How do I get it back. I loved my world with the news feeds, my favorites, and people. How do I get it all back?
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Hello all,
Please try this:
1. Find your Profile.
2. Find the file flock-data.sqlite
3. Rename it Flock-data-backup.sqlite
4. Restart Flock.
5. Test Myworld. Try to enable the widgets.
Let me know how this works for you!
~Cam
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Inappropriate?One note before trying this fix, it will delete all your remembered accounts...
It appears your profile got corrupted, try the following:
Go to your profile folder and rename the flock-data.sqlite file, do this while flock is NOT running. If you're running windows XP, it's in c:\Documents and Settings\[your user name]\Application Data\Flock.
So, just rename flock-data.sqlite to flock-data-backup.sqlite.
If you're not running XP, you can check the following FAQ to find the location of the profile for all other OS's: http://flock.com/faq/show/64#q_387
Once you do that, start up the browser and you should get your myworld stuff again. Hope that helps!1 Comment Add a comment
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I tried doing this and when I went to Go to (your home folder)>Library>Application Support>Flock There IS NO MORE flock folder here. it simply disappeared! so what now? -
Inappropriate?I have this same problem am running xp. Am I being stupid? I can't find the above folder. I need help.
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Debra,
Are you having difficulties finding the Flock folder (profile) or the flock-data.sqlite file?
If it's the Flock folder, please follow the link that Mark has provided:
http://flock.com/faq/show/64#q_387
Be sure to choose the option to show hidden files, as described in the FAQ.
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Inappropriate?I did a search and found the file. I renamed it flock-data-backup.sqlite. Logged off, rebooted. Nothing has changed still no widgets, still no favorites. If It helps when you click on the widgets tab you get a very small gray box under the widget symble it goes away if you click it again. Thank you for your help, Deb.
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Inappropriate?I am using a Mac and I can't find the folder, looked in Library/Application support and there is no Flock folder in there.
I’m sad
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@Sazzy,
Did you make sure to go to your Home folder first (the directory with the username you used to log into your computer), to find Library/Application Support ?
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Inappropriate?@ Sophie
I finally found the folder, and changed it as stated above, but now it has lost all of my RSS feeds and I still can't select any widgets.
Anything else I can do? Unless I need to uninstall and reinstall Flock?
Thanks,
Samantha1 Comment Add a comment
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@Samantha,
How about starting Flock with a fresh and clean profile?
To do so,
1) back up all your RSS (http://flock.com/faq/show/35#q_5878) and bookmarks (http://flock.com/faq/show/36#q_61211)
2) close Flock
3) find your Flock profile by going to (your home folder)>Library>Application Support>
4) rename the "Flock" folder to "FlockBackUp"
5) restart Flock
Thanks, and apologies for the inconvenience,
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Inappropriate?My Flock isn't even launching and I've lost all my accounts, contacts, and most important Favorites with all my links. I'm so pissed I've been seeing red for the past day and a half. What is the problem?????
I click the icon on my desktop and nothing happens. I went to start menue and nothing happens. It's as if Flock never existed on my PC and all this has happen ever since I downloaded that Flock upgrade.
No need to send me some crappy instructions. I'm going back to Explorer. By the way Fock, get a reall Customer Support system with real people.3 Comments Add a comment
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haha. And that response is exactly why you shouldn't write to companies when you're mad.
And just a tip: There are a lot of other browsers out there than Internet Explorer. Even plenty that aren't by Mozilla, if that's really important to you. But Internet Explorer? That's by far the worst browser. Hope your anti-virus is up to date and you do scans regularly. -
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Jason - I'm sorry that you've had a bad experience with Flock. I'm sorry that you've chosen not to accept our help trying to solve it. But please do not behave negatively towards other forum members. Av3ry may have been a little rough in his delivery, but he was only trying to provide you with some advice as to how to stay safe on the internet.
Thank you for your consideration.
Evan Hamilton
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Inappropriate?Jason: you're welcome to post your frustration with reasonable language, but once you start acting offensive to both us and other visitors while ignoring our attempts to provide you with assistance, you're simply causing trouble. Please come back when you're ready to be reasonable.
Evan Hamilton
Flock Community Ambassador
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Inappropriate?Reasonable?! You've deleted my entire favorites, feeds and cost me an entire day of work. Who's being unreasonable? Have you sent a public apology to all flocks users? Did you warn us before we so unknowingly got tricked into upgrading your browser, with you knowing the flaws? No, I don't think so. A civilized company would have done so, but I guess that's why all your companies here are going down to tube! Hope you join the likes of GM, Ford, and Leiman Borthers with your crap browser.
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Hey Jason,
I'm going to leave this post up and reply because you deserve some further explanation, but please refrain from using offensive language in further posts, however.
I am truly sorry that you lost your content, though it is possible that we can retrieve some to all of it through troubleshooting with you - I can't promise it, but if you do not work with us then there's not much I can do.
Unfortunately, we did not know about this issue before we turned on auto-updates. The issues you experienced only affected a small subset of Flock users who got these updates, which is why we could not detect them during our in-house QA. It's extremely unfortunate that it happened at all, and we quickly turned off auto-updates after the problem became apparent. You may have missed it, but we did have a long thread going about this issue. Most people were able to retrieve their favorites after following our instructions. We're very sorry the issue occurred and we've done everything we can to help out those affected by it. I can totally understand your frustration and I respect your decision to move to another browser. We do apologize for the irritation and inconvenience, and hope you luck with your next browser.
Evan Hamilton
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Inappropriate?FrancisI'm still having this problem -- and I've been searching the bulletin boards for hours now and still haven't come up with an acceptable solution. Can someone please point me in the direction of a fix. Favorites, widgets, sidebars...it's all corrupt now. Nothing works, I'm running 2.5...and this browser used to be rock solid for me.1 Comment Add a comment
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Yes all of mine just disappeared a week or so ago. I was in denial but now It is really bothering me and I don't know whether to trust flock since this keeps happening to people.
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Inappropriate?Hello all,
Please try this:
1. Find your Profile.
2. Find the file flock-data.sqlite
3. Rename it Flock-data-backup.sqlite
4. Restart Flock.
5. Test Myworld. Try to enable the widgets.
Let me know how this works for you!
~Cam
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Inappropriate?I removed the .sqlite file entirely (dragged it out of the folder) yesterday and it resolved all of my issues -- previously, my widgets were dead and I couldn't bookmark anything. I also did a clean reinstall of 2.5. Everything seems fine now, and I'm running much faster than I was when the browser was corrupted (everything slowed to a crawl within 5 minutes of a restart).
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Inappropriate?why flock didnt make conversion script when u update to 2.5.5 for the widgets ?????????????????
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