Finder Favorites Sidebar issue

[haravikk]

A put the folder inside another ( folder A, in HardDrive2/folder B ) and put folder A in the Sidebar's favourite.. and so far.. after rebooting... no HardDrive2 in the favourites!

Hmm, not sure what's going on there; my Dropbox folder (which appears to be the main offender for people with this problem) is several folders deep on my second drive, since I basically have a parallel folder structure for the things that I've moved there (i.e - /Users/haravikk/Documents/Dropbox).

Out of interest, those who are having trouble with Dropbox, and those that are not; are you using the default dropbox folder, or have you moved it onto the other drive using Dropbox's feature to do-so? In my case mine is both in a non-standard location, but I've also sym-linked ~/Documents to be in a different location

 

[nickds]

Hello,

I dont know whether this problem is similar to yours or not, but I am running the latest preview of 10.8 on a 2009 unibody MacBook.

I booted up this morning and in the finder sidebar I only have Nick's Macbook under Devices.

All my favourites have disappeared and it will not let me recheck them, as soon as I check a favourite in finder preferences it clears the box again? I can check and uncheck devices and shared, but not favourites.

How strange

 

[doomvc]

For the reference.
I have the same issue and solved by unlink dropbox and re-link again.
The drive no longer re-add to side bar automatically after relaunch or reboot!

 

[haravikk]

solved by unlink dropbox and re-link again.

You mean unlinking and linking the dropbox account? I tried this with the latest DropBox version (1.4.12) and unfortunately it didn't work; did you take any other steps?

 

[patte]

Mine has to do with one of my internal drives. I have an SSD as my boot drive and then a separate drive for my home folder, it's named "Home". The two remaining internal drives are named "Media" and "Video". All the drives show up under the Devices list in Finder, but it's the "Home" drive that keeps getting added under the Favorites list. I remove it, but it just keeps coming back. I've had this setup for a while and never had any issues with previous versions of OSX. It's obviously not a major issue, just annoying.

That's exactly my issue:

An internal volume which I named "Home" sits in my sidebar favorites and keeps coming back no matter how often I remove it from the favorites.

For the record:

1: Hub (internal, System Files, Dropbox in default location aka my user's home folder & I'm also symlinking the hell out of it)
2: Silo (internal)
3: Workshop (internal)
4: Home (internal)

The first things I tried where also deleting the com.apple.sidebarlists.plist
and com.apple.finder.plist, but to no avail.

The problem first appeared on Mountain Lion - which seems to be the no. culprit here.

I think kbmb is on to something with what folders are in the favorits. I tried setting up a second user account, but so far failed to narrow it down. I didn't perform all the step the reproduce the problem, c.f. activating a Dropbox and moving it to the sidebar.

 

[eXcalibre]

To sum up

This is NOT caused by Dropbox as such, but the fact that you have a 'softlink' in your main drive that points to another drive and shows the parent drive in the favorites.

I also use an SSD to host my main OS (Lion) and have soft links to other drives folders (such as movies, pictures and music) as these items are now found on the other drives within my machine, finder decides to add them to the favorites menu in finders sidebar.

Very annoying

 

[djdino]

fixed it

I think I figured it out.

I had recently added a folder that was in a personal drive to my Favorites in the sidebar. When I removed that folder, and removed the drive, it stopped popping up. for some reason the favorite folder was pulling the drive in too.

 

[myprettycabinet]

A guy posted this on another forum, and it worked for me.

"Hold command AND option, then drag it off the Favorites bar. The item will turn into a little "poof" white cloud and when you release, it'll go away! Finally!"

OMG, thank you!! I've had SO many folders linked from a dead harddrive cluttering up my finder that wouldn't go away because it couldn't connect to the harddrive anymore. NOW THEY"RE GONE!!!!!

 

[mikeyrogers]

Mine has to do with one of my internal drives. I have an SSD as my boot drive and then a separate drive for my home folder, it's named "Home". The two remaining internal drives are named "Media" and "Video". All the drives show up under the Devices list in Finder, but it's the "Home" drive that keeps getting added under the Favorites list. I remove it, but it just keeps coming back. I've had this setup for a while and never had any issues with previous versions of OSX. It's obviously not a major issue, just annoying.

Yup, this is my issue as well. My setup is:

Primary: SSD formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled) 'Macintosh HD' (10.8.2) + Windows NT File System (NTFS) 'Windows 8'
Secondary: HDD formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled) "Macintosh Data'
Tertiary: HDD formatted Windows NT File System (NTFS) 'Windows Data'

Under Favorites on the sidebar, the Secondary drive keeps showing up no matter how I try and remove it from that section. I also have several other folders that are a few levels deep from the root of the Secondary drive, intentionally set as Favorites.

 

[kashif789us]

Solution i found is to remove dropbox and drive both from the sidebar. Then add dropbox folder again to sidebar. Drive wont appear again.

 

[MuggeGHQ]

Solution i found is to remove dropbox and drive both from the sidebar. Then add dropbox folder again to sidebar. Drive wont appear again.

Guys. This works.

I did exactly this and it worked on 2 Mac's for me. I guess that does it.. Thx

 

[jasonefmonk]

Originally Posted by kashif789us
Solution i found is to remove dropbox and drive both from the sidebar. Then add dropbox folder again to sidebar. Drive wont appear again.

Guys. This works.

I did exactly this and it worked on 2 Mac's for me. I guess that does it.. Thx

Thank you very much, it was driving me nuts and with such a simple solution. I had it worked out with an alias before, but this is obviously a full solution.

 

[thomassteph]

I am having this problem with El Capitan. Didn't happen before, but now drives are cluttering up my favorites sidebar. I remove them periodically and they reappear within a few days. It's very annoying.