Duplicate items in Sidebar

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Duplicate items in Sidebar

For the last few months, I have had duplicate items show in the sidebar:

http://i.imgur.com/SsupM.png

I have tried:
- Restarting
- killall Finder
- Removing the items manually
- Trashing the com.apple.sidebars.plist file

Nothing seems to work - any suggestions?

MacBook Pro 2.2ghz, Mac OS X (10.5)

Posted on Nov 16, 2010 3:49 PM

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Answer 1

macjack

Level 10

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Nov 16, 2010 8:45 PM in response to a.calder

For duplicates on side bar and save as menu.

1. Drag all icons off bottom of your Finder sidebar.
2. In Finder >> Preferences >> Sidebar UNcheck all options.
3. navigate to ~(yourHome)/Library/Preferences and trash these two files:
com.apple.finder.plist
com.apple.sidebarlists.plist

Then log out and back in again. Or restart.
(You will have to reset a few finder prefs the way you like them.)

-mj

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Answer 2

a.calder Author

Level 1

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Nov 18, 2010 3:37 PM in response to a.calder

Thanks for that, it's working great now.

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