Deleting the plist finally got rid of the Sidebar items that refused to die.
Many thanks, Ronda! On 01/05/2011, at 12:53 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > Hi Ray, > > Try a “click and hold” (that is press but DO NOT RELEASE the mouth button), > and then drag the offending folder icon out of the Sidebar to the Desktop, > and release the mouse button. The item should then go “poof” and be gone. > > If that doesn’t work you can delete the Sidebar preference plist to return it > to the default state. Remove this file: > > /Users/yourname/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist > > Then log out and back in, restart, or relaunch the Finder. > > Cheers, > Ronni > > 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 > 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD > > OS X 10.6.7 Snow Leopard > Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) Regards, Ray Forma Mob +61 (0) 428 596938 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>