sidebar in finder window has unresponsive icons and resets after logout or

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sidebar in finder window has unresponsive icons and resets after logout or

Since I upgraded to 10.6.5 when I open my finder window, the "places" items all look like they are there, but when clicked they are unresponsive. I have thrown them off the sidebar "poof", then added the originals back, which works perfectly, until I restart, upon restart all the places folders in the sidebar that aren't working are locked up again and the sidebar has reverted to its original non working status with the same "places" available as before the replacements, still non responsive.

I have read many forums and tried the solutions described (only found one of those, the toss and replace, but the problem persists.

also other than the com.apple.finder.plist file in the user preferences, is there any other file regarding the finder that can be removed and will reset itself? com.apple.finder.plist when removed does not replace itself on restart.

Help Please!!! My sidebar is useless right now.

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.5)

Posted on Jan 5, 2011 5:29 PM

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Answer 1

Jan 5, 2011 5:52 PM in response to tricky question

What happens if you remove the com.apple.finder.plist ,

then relaunch finder by -->force quit-->Finder-->relaunch

For further insight I would reference this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=12824964&

Message was edited by: leroydouglas

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Answer 2

Jan 6, 2011 11:44 AM in response to leroydouglas

That didn't work...it did reset the finder window but if I make any adjustments to the "places" on the sidebar, after I logout and come back, it has reverted to its default status. 😟

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Answer 3

Feb 11, 2011 1:33 PM in response to tricky question

Me too, to all of the above. No matter what I do, I can't make my custom changes to the sidebar stick after restart. I can't even rename an alias--directly, or by changing the name of the original. I recall the sidebar always be problematic where it's "memory" was concerned, but this is really aggravating. I feel like I'm missing something basic, like there's an invisible system file somewhere that's become disconnected from the active settings prefs.

This is a brand new MacBook Pro running latest version of Snow Leopard, to which I migrated all content and settings from my old MacBook Pro, if that helps.

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Answer 4

Feb 18, 2011 7:27 PM in response to Amystoneus

Bump

I'm having the same issue with 10.6.6
have tried deleting user/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
works till I log out
then it all reverts

any solutions?

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Answer 5

Feb 18, 2011 7:48 PM in response to Amystoneus

update

so the obvious
I needed to delete user/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebar.plist

I've done that and now I only have the following under Places in the sidebar:
Desktop
User
Applications
Documents

If I add folders to the sidebar, when I log back in it reverts to just the four above

For some reason Finder is not saving the edits to the sidebar
how do I fix this?

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Answer 6

Feb 19, 2011 4:59 PM in response to Ssyzzyggy

Yeah, the obvious, d'oh/___sbsstatic___/migration-images/migration-img-not-avail.png/___sbsstatic_ __/migration-images/migration-img-not-avail.png/___sbsstatic___/migration-images /migration-img-not-avail.png/___sbsstatic___/migration-images/migration-img-not- avail.png/___sbsstatic___/migration-images/migration-img-not-avail.png/___sbssta tic___/migration-images/migration-img-not-avail.png/___sbsstatic___/migration-im ages/migration-img-not-avail.png/___sbsstatic___/migration-images/migration-img- not-avail.png/___sbsstatic___/migration-images/migration-img-not-avail.png/___sb sstatic___/migration-images/migration-img-not-avail.png/___sbsstatic___/migratio n-images/migration-img-not-avail.png

Problem solved. 🙂

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Answer 7

Jul 20, 2011 11:27 PM in response to tricky question

Has anyone yet found a solution to this problem? I've had it since 10.6.5 and it continues into 10.7. I've deleted all the preference files listed above but nothing seems to work.

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Answer 8

i8dbear

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Nov 14, 2011 3:53 PM in response to jessedouglas

BUMP.

Had this problem under SL and hoped it would resolve with Lion install. No luck! WASSUP?

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Answer 9

SWLinPHX

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Jun 2, 2013 3:09 AM in response to i8dbear

I'm having this issue with Finder Sidebar, Apple Menu Recent Items, some System Prefs settings, Text Edit "open recent", etc. They don't rever to factory but to the way it was up to a date many months ago. Anything since then I have to re-add or redo after each restart.

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