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how to reorder side bar in finder

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Huck31

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i hate that lion now rearranged my side bar in finder, i keep selecting the wrong thing.

anyone come up with a way to re-organize the side bar yet?
 
Huck31 said:
i hate that lion now rearranged my side bar in finder, i keep selecting the wrong thing.

anyone come up with a way to re-organize the side bar yet?
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I'm not booted into Lion right now but can't you just drag the things up/down like you can in SL?
 
You mean drag 'Devices' to the top?

You can't. Sadly.

This is what I do though.

The "-----" is just a folder.
 

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Come on, there has to be a way!?! I've tried everything. This is making almost 10 years of experience into turning me into a fumbling idiot. Listen up Apple, this needs to be addressed in a point release.
 
You can drag and reposition them within say the favorites area, but I can't seem to move the devices or shared groups as a whole around.
 
How in the hell do you remove "All My Files" from the Finder sidebar.
It automatically goes to that every time. If I just remove it from the side bar it shouldn't mess up anything, right?
 
johndoejohndoes said:
How in the hell do you remove "All My Files" from the Finder sidebar.
It automatically goes to that every time. If I just remove it from the side bar it shouldn't mess up anything, right?
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In terms of it going to it every time, you can select what a new finder opens up on by selecting the finder menu when on the desktop and then in preferences in the general tab select what you want.
 
johndoejohndoes said:
How in the hell do you remove "All My Files" from the Finder sidebar.
It automatically goes to that every time. If I just remove it from the side bar it shouldn't mess up anything, right?
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To remove it from the sidebar you can either secondary click and choose "remove from sidebar" or you can open up the Finder preferences and uncheck the box next to it in the sidebar tab.

As far as what Finder opens up to: you can also change this behavior in preferences; just change where it says "New Finder Windows Open To:" to something else in the General tab of Finder preferences.
 
I've just upgraded to Lion and suddenly a new folder appeared inside my "Favorites" list in Finder. I'm trying to drag it off the list, but I can't, it always goes back to the same place.

If I click on it, it just won't show anything.

Do any of you guys know if there's a terminal line I can use to get rid of it?

Thank you!
 
BuckyRocks said:
I've just upgraded to Lion and suddenly a new folder appeared inside my "Favorites" list in Finder. I'm trying to drag it off the list, but I can't, it always goes back to the same place.

If I click on it, it just won't show anything.

Do any of you guys know if there's a terminal line I can use to get rid of it?

Thank you!
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You should be able to right click on it to remove it.
 
Cougarcat said:
You should be able to right click on it to remove it.
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I know, that's what I did with other folders that were added automatically to my "Favorites" but it seems that this one in particular wants to cause me a headache...

I guess the only way I can get rid of it is forcing the removal through a command line in Terminal. I just don't know which one...

Thanks though ;)
 
Is the one called "102 CANON"

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I just can't click on it or anything.
Spotlight is still indexing all the files on my Mac so I can't actually look for it and see where is located.

*Sorry for the picture, it seems too big for the forum :$
 
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BuckyRocks said:
I just can't click on it or anything.
Spotlight is still indexing all the files on my Mac so I can't actually look for it and see where is located.
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That could be the problem right there. I'd wait until spotlight is finished indexing, then try again.
 
Don't have Lion yet, but... has anyone tried holding down the command key or another modifier key while dragging things?
 
Cmd key to remove, but not reorder

You can hold down the command key and drag the offending all my files folder out of your side bar, but it does not allow you to rearrange your groupings to how they were in snow leopard, unfortunately.
 
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