Rob, First, let me thank you for your prompt reply and tenacity.
I was able to finally to delete the unusable gadgets using Firefox today. Not sure why they were locked for the 48 hours. If you would like me to try to recreate the situation I will, however since it's now working I'd rather leave Chrome closed until the bug is addressed and not tempt fate. If it helps to know, I initially tried creating my gadget in Chrome. I couldn't get it to work and deleted it successfully. Later, in Firefox (I currently swap between browsers), I gave it another stab and created a working gadget. Later still I tried editing it in Chrome, which is when the trouble began (I wasn't aware of Chrome's issue with GGE.) The gadget broke. Eventually I tried creating copies out of frustration since my code looked right, but none of them worked. Then I tried deleting the gadgets from Chrome but was unsuccessful. I switched to Firefox and received the same 'failure to delete' error. This morning it works (using Firefox) and I haven't cleared my browser cache or rebooted the laptop. Hope that's descriptive enough. If you hadn't responded I wouldn't have assumed GGE was fatally flawed and wouldn't be returning. Thank you again for your help. Scott On Mar 24, 3:41 am, Rob Russell <[email protected]> wrote: > I just dug in to this a little bit more and I can't seem to recreate the > problem. I still think there's no other way to delete this data but I > created a file and tried to save using Chrome. Then I checked the directory > of files I've created with GGE and the new file name doesn't show up in > either Firefox or Chrome. It seems that the save fails in Chrome although no > error is reported. I'd like to determine if the problem is with the browser > or with the Gadget Editor. > > Are you still able to create files in Chrome that you can't delete in > Firefox? > > Rob Russell > Google Developer Relations > > On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Rob Russell <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, I've looked in to it and at present there's no way to delete this data > > except through the Google Gadget Editor. > > > Rob Russell > > Google Developer Relations > > > On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 5:06 AM, Godzilla8NJ <[email protected]>wrote: > > >> Thanks. Is there any way to delete the non-working gadgets though? I > >> can't seem to do that anymore, even from Firefox. > > >> On Mar 23, 12:00 am, Rob Russell <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > There's a known issue with Chrome and GGE. If you have the url of the > >> xml > >> > file, you can download a copy then try pasting it in to GGE using > >> Firefox. > > >> > hth, > >> > Rob Russell > >> > Google Developer Relations > > >> > On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 6:18 AM, Godzilla8NJ <[email protected] > >> >wrote: > > >> > > Recently discovered GGE and successfully created my first gadget. > >> > > However now it had ceased to work and I cannot delete it or any of the > >> > > non-working replacements for it I attempted to build. Instead I get > >> > > the message "File delete unsuccessful." > > >> > > I originally built the gadget using Firefox, but the trouble began > >> > > when I revisited GGE using Chrome. The gadgets that previously worked > >> > > suddenly stopped. I switched back to Firefox, but now they don't even > >> > > load (even helloworld.xml loads blank.) > > >> > > Please help. > > >> > > -- > >> > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > >> Groups > >> > > "iGoogle Developer Forum" group. > >> > > To post to this group, send email to > >> [email protected]. > >> > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> > > [email protected]<google-gadgets-api%[email protected]> > >> <google-gadgets-api%[email protected]<google-gadgets-api%[email protected]> > > >> > > . > >> > > For more options, visit this group at > >> > >http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Gadgets-API?hl=en. > > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > >> "iGoogle Developer Forum" group. > >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> [email protected]<google-gadgets-api%[email protected]> > >> . > >> For more options, visit this group at > >>http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Gadgets-API?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iGoogle Developer Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Gadgets-API?hl=en.
