Locations Services bug?

[steve62388]

So I noticed my weather widget was showing the wrong location. You're supposed to be able to change the location by clicking on the city, in my case this does nothing and doesn't register at all. I thought, 'oh, probably some sort of Location Services bug'. I had a look in System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Location Services and was faced with this:-




Some of these apps are long uninstalled (Living Earth Desktop and Flux) so I intend to uncheck those boxes. My understanding is that there isn't a simple way to permanently remove these entries, but please let me know if there is.

But why does Weather, Calendar, Messages and Photos have issues? If you cursor hover the exclamation mark you can see the sort of error message that comes up (with different file names for each app).

So I'd like to fix this and my original Weather location problem.

 

[AL2TEACH]

same issue with calendar and weather with location.

 

[steve62388]

same issue with calendar and weather with location.

Weird. I wonder what it is and if it’s related to why I can’t change my weather location on the widget. Can you?

 

[appltech]

There are ways of removing entries from that list, like this: https://superuser.com/questions/526...n-services-in-security-privacy-on-mac-os-x-10 (the original guide was written for 10.8, but it should still work).
But, there seem to be an issue with apps themselves. I'd go for a simple OS reinstall via Recovery.
(Apps that are no longer installed on the Mac should disappear once you uncheck them).

 

[chabig]

You're supposed to be able to change the location by clicking on the city

I don't think this is right. Clicking on the widget opens The Weather Channel in a browser window. To change the location in the weather widget you right-click on the widget and select "Edit Weather".

 

[steve62388]

I don't think this is right. Clicking on the widget opens The Weather Channel in a browser window. To change the location in the weather widget you right-click on the widget and select "Edit Weather".

Yeah sorry, that’s what I meant. Clicking on the city once you select edit. But in my case it doesn’t register anything at all.

 

[chabig]

Have you manually followed that path (System/Library/CoreServices/Weather.app) to see if the Weather app is there?

 

[AL2TEACH]

Weird. I wonder what it is and if it’s related to why I can’t change my weather location on the widget. Can you?

haven't tried it since I don't use the weather widget. okay, just looked to see if it was where chabig stated and it was there. also, I did change location by right clicking, edit weather and changed location to "my location".

 

[steve62388]

There are ways of removing entries from that list, like this: https://superuser.com/questions/526...n-services-in-security-privacy-on-mac-os-x-10 (the original guide was written for 10.8, but it should still work).
But, there seem to be an issue with apps themselves. I'd go for a simple OS reinstall via Recovery.
(Apps that are no longer installed on the Mac should disappear once you uncheck them).

You're 100% correct that the uninstalled apps disappear once I uncheck them. My preference would be not to go through a Recovery. I wonder if I could leverage this 'disappearing'? ie uncheck the broken links, launch the app and it might ask for location permissions again? Or it might break my system, so maybe a last resort.

 

[steve62388]

I have been playing around and made some progress.

As mentioned the uninstalled apps disappear from the list when unchecked.

The apps are present in the locations indicated.

Weather just started working. No idea how or why. I can now edit my location from the widget and it appears correctly in my Location Services.

Also broken was/is Calendar, Home, Messages and Photos. Launching Home it fixed itself in Locations Services. Launching Calendar, Messages and Photos did not fix anything. But when I put a new entry in Calendar with a location it fixed it in my Location Services. I'm wondering how I might replicate something similar in Messages and Photos?