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Upgraded to MacOS Monterey 12.1. - Since the upgrade, my favorite aliases keep dropping off my Finder sidebar. I have tried reboots, replacing the preferences, but nothing takes. They stay in place for a week then <<poof>> gone. Have been unable to find any post that remedies this issue.
iMac 27″, macOS 12.1
mojohook wrote:
Upgraded to MacOS Monterey 12.1. - Since the upgrade, my favorite aliases keep dropping off my Finder sidebar. I have tried reboots, replacing the preferences, but nothing takes. They stay in place for a week then <<poof>> gone. Have been unable to find any post that remedies this issue.
You would suspect a corrupt plist and deleting the com.apple.finder.plist
Found here Finder>Go>Go to Folder copy and paste:
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
Relaunch your Finder from the >Force Quit>Finder>Relaunch
You can try a safeboot to delete cache files...
SafeBoot How to use safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support
Takes a bit longer to get to the login screen, does a quick disk repair before it fully boots up, and certain system caches get cleared and rebuilt, including dynamic loader cache, etc.
Login and test. Reboot as normal and test. Caches get rebuilt automatically.
—you can Test issue in another user (or guest user) account Set up users, guests, and groups on Mac - Apple Support
This will tell you if it a universal issue or isolated to your user/admin account.
Uninstall all third party apps that are Cleaners/Optimizers/VPN/Anti-Virus
all known to cause issues on the macOS
if no insight or resolve you can reinstall the macOS on top of your existing macOS to sort anomalies
How to reinstall macOS from macOS Recovery - How to reinstall macOS - Apple Support
Favorites keep disappearing from Finder sidebar.