I can't remove aliases from the sidebar

Try right or control clicking then click Remove form Sidebar.

Control-click the alias to bring up the contextual menu. From there you should be able to remove the alias.

Hold down the Command key and then you should be able to drag the item off the sidebar

This issue was actually addressed in 10.6.7 - People were dragging Macintosh HD off the Sidebar and things would get ugly when they thought they had lost it (surprisingly hard to find for people that don't know where to look).

If you hold Command Down and then click and drag, it will come off - As Heretical_1 said.

Regards,

Zet.

Sometimes they get stuck - for instance if you've deleted the original file or folder associated with the alias in the sidebar. However, you can use Developer Tools (an optional install on your MacOS X installer disc) to manage and delete those that refuse to budge.

To do this you need to use Property List Editor, which you'll find in Developer > Applications > Utilities.

In your Home folder go to User > Library > Preferences > com.apple.sidebarlists.plist

Control-right click and choose Open With > Property List Editor.

Scroll down to "useritems" and click the grey arrow next to it to reveal contents.

Click the arrow next to CustomListItems and you'll see a list of entries marked "Item" with a numeric suffix.

Click the grey arrow next to the Item whose number corresponds to the sidebar alias that you want to get rid of and you'll see the info associated with that entry, including its name, as seen in the sidebar.

If it's the right one, click again on the Item header (i.e. "Item x") and hit delete.

Quit Property List Editor and Save changes.

Quit and relaunch Finder and the Item you've just deleted will be gone from the sidebar list.

I just tried this and cannot get it to work

Paul

Heretical 1, this worked for me. Glad, b/c I was hoping not to go CJ's route. Thanks to all!

Zetai wrote:

This issue was actually addressed in 10.6.7 - People were dragging Macintosh HD off the Sidebar and things would get ugly when they thought they had lost it (surprisingly hard to find for people that don't know where to look).

I wonder why they still haven't fixed this for the Dock.

Steve, Glad to hear it 🙂

Hey Thanks! this got rid of a long persistent empty burn folder in my sidebar.

Hi

can't see to find Developer Tools on my disk

Am I looking in the wrong place ?

X-Code is the Developer tools. Just install all of X-Code. When installed you'll find them in the following location;