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When using a tutorial to clear Launchpad of its mess I had in /Applications, I accidentally cleared Dashboard's list of widgets when I click the (+) button to add downloaded widgets at the same time, kind of like Launchpad's viewing of apps.

Here is my Dashboard:

Dashboard, normal state

And here it is when I click the (+) button to add downloaded widgets in the bottom left corner of Dashboard:

No widgets to be found

I believe it will only show new widgets I download. How can I get it to show all of my widgets again—including the default, built-in widgets?

(This is my Launchpad: it looks similar to the "add widgets" of Dashboard.app in Mountain Lion, but I am looking how to restore my list of widgets in Dashboard, not Launchpad.)

Launchpad, 10.8.2

Also, it probably doesn't make a large difference, but my Dashboard is set as a Space and not an overlay right now.

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