Comments on: Mac OSX Finder: “The volume cannot be found”

By: GildedCage

GildedCage — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:15:57 +0000

for 2012, much easier: http://lostentropy.com/2011/07/21/removing-stuck-finder-sidebar-items-in-os-x-lion-and-snow-leopard/

By: Pedro

Pedro — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 09:38:13 +0000

it worked for me like a charm, none of the methods above did. there is no such file on my Mac like com.apple.sidebarlists.plist, neither spotlight nor search can find it

By: Pedro

Pedro — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 09:36:31 +0000

U r king of the kings!

By: KR

KR — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 19:47:27 +0000

Nope – that just worked for me… brillant! Thanks.

Just click, hold and drag off…

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Thu, 07 Jul 2011 22:17:51 +0000

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By: Jose Marcio Machado

Jose Marcio Machado — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 19:20:02 +0000

It worked for me: “Hold down the command key and drag it off”

Lost couple of hours trying to remove it !

Thanks !

By: Cosmo

Cosmo — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:10:43 +0000

Ok found it! It’s in the “User Account”/Library/Preferences not the root Library folder of course

By: Cosmo

Cosmo — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:03:30 +0000

Holding down the command key while dragging it worked for me. Strangely there was no “com.apple.sidebarlists.plist” in my Library/Preferences folder?

By: Susana

Susana — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 11:32:26 +0000

Press command while dragging the item out of the sidebar.

I had the same problem (no longer existing files in the sidebar that couldn't be deleted) and it worked fine.

By: JB

JB — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 02:41:17 +0000

Here’s what worked for me, as I don’t have the Playlist Editor. Select the file ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist . Right click or control click and select “Get Info.” Under the heading of what to use to open the file, select a text editor, such as TexWangler or TextEdit. Now, double click on the file ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist and it will open with the text editor you chose. You will see a long, long list of everything in your sidebar. Look for the name of the sidebar item you want to get rid of. Select the whole section from to and hit delete. You will need to reboot the computer in order for the sidebar item to be gone.