Try holding down the option key when you move the file, it will copy it to the desktop, then delete the one from the sidebar. Have no idea if this will work.
John > On Nov 29, 2014, at 1:52 PM, Anne Cartwright <[email protected]> wrote: > > I was trying to return the Favorites sidebar to the way it was yesterday. For > some reason, when I shut my machine down yesterday because things were > running very slowly, the sidebar changed. > > In trying to move a file to the Favorites, it would not go in as a file and > instead ended up in the Applications folder in the Sidebar. Now I can't get > it out of Applications except as an alias. > > I can remove other files from Applications with no problem but this one will > only move as an alias. It is a FileMaker Pro database, not an application. I > want to get the original back where it belongs and would like to have an > alias in the Favorites Sidebar. What's my problem" > > Running Mac OS X 10.8.5. > > AnneCartwright > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
