How to clean up places

[veteq]

I meant to hit Option+Cmd to hide the side bar, instead I hit Cmd+shift that added over 300 listing to the "places" bar, is there a way to clean it up quickly? Instead of one at a time? any help would be greatly apprecited.

 

[BlueRevolution]

Just delete Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist, then relaunch Finder by opening a Terminal window and typing:

sudo killall Finder

 

[Ashka]

Just delete Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist, then relaunch Finder by opening a Terminal window and typing:

sudo killall Finder

Rather than playing in Terminal just hold down the Option Key while right clicking the Finder icon in the dock ~ Relaunch will be on the context menu.

 

[BlueRevolution]

Oh, there ya go! I'll add that to my mental list of bizarrely useful facts.

 

[veteq]

That worked great, right click on finder while holding the option key made restarting finder simple. The last time made this mistake, took me 20 min to clean it up. I am glade I asked the question this time


thank you