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What happened to sidebar.plist in preferences?

It seems after every update, something goes haywire. In my sidebar, several items have disappeared even though they are checked off in Finder preferences. Reading older forum questions prompted me to remove sidebar.plist and finder.plist, but neither show up in my preferences folder. How do I fix the issue of getting my selected items to show up in the sidebar again? Thank you.

Mac mini, macOS 11.2

Posted on Mar 28, 2021 11:01 AM

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Posted on Mar 28, 2021 11:23 AM

Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at startup), does the problem occur in Safe Mode? Could take 10 minutes.


Safe mode attempts to repair Disks & clears lots of caches & loads safe Drivers, & prevents loading of 3rd party extensions, so if Safe Mode works try again in regular boot.


They are there, perhaps you're not in the right Library???


~ tilde indicates hidden Local Library

Apple hid the Users' Library folders...


Method 1:

1 From the Finder, select the Go menu at top of the screen, and choose Go to Folder.

2 In the window that opens, enter ~/Library, and click Go.


~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist


~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist

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Mar 28, 2021 11:23 AM in response to Ddaside8

Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at startup), does the problem occur in Safe Mode? Could take 10 minutes.


Safe mode attempts to repair Disks & clears lots of caches & loads safe Drivers, & prevents loading of 3rd party extensions, so if Safe Mode works try again in regular boot.


They are there, perhaps you're not in the right Library???


~ tilde indicates hidden Local Library

Apple hid the Users' Library folders...


Method 1:

1 From the Finder, select the Go menu at top of the screen, and choose Go to Folder.

2 In the window that opens, enter ~/Library, and click Go.


~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist


~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist

What happened to sidebar.plist in preferences?

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