OT Help re Mac SideBar

[Joe Lewis Wilkins]

Bob, I trashed the pList as you suggested. On restarting a new one was created, but the item I was trying to eliminate was there again, so I recovered the old pList from the trash. Any chance I should have dumped the trash before restarting?

Joe

On Sep 22, 2011, at 2:58 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:

> Joe
> 
> Open a terminal window. Navigate to your user preferences folder using cd ~/Library/Preferences. type open com.apple.sidebarlists.plist. (I use PListEdit Pro so it's easy for me but TextEdit will also work if you are careful.) Under Root/useritems/CustomListItems inspect each key to find the offending key. Delete it. Reboot. I googled how. You can also just delete the plist file and the Finder will give you a fresh one when you reboot, but none of your other shortcuts will be there. 
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> On Sep 22, 2011, at 2:38 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote:
> 
>> Thanks Bob, but that doesn't work; even while holding down any combination of keys.
>> 
>> Joe Wilkins
>> 
>> On Sep 22, 2011, at 2:35 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
>> 
>>> Dragging it out of the sidebar does not work?
>>> 
>>> Bob
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Sep 22, 2011, at 2:23 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>> 
>>>> A long time ago, I managed to make an item in the sidebar so that it has no alias to which it points. It just sits there taking up space. Is there anyway that I can remove it. I've tried everything I know that might work.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> 
>>>> Joe Wilkins
>>>>