Finder Resetting After Restart

Hello,
I recently restored my preferences folders, both on the Macintosh HD and my user account, from a Time Machine backup to solve a problem that I was having with my trackpad.
I am now finding that whenever I add any shortcuts to my finder sidebar they disappear after restarting my machine.
Has anyone else encountered this problem and successfully solved it?
Many thanks/

Hello again:
Confused!
Me too (no help to you). It is possible I do not understand what you are trying to do as I do not add things to the finder sidebar. Usually trashing a preference file corrects all sorts of things.
The reinstall (over your existing system) would, at least, almost eliminate software issues. An alternative would be to do a complete restore from a TM backup at a point in time where things were working the way you wanted.
Barry

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