I earased my idisk icon in my finder window

I accidentally erased my idisk icon from my finder window. I have searched for it in every place possible so that I could drag it back to the sidebar but I have yet to find the icon again. I was wondering if there was anyway I could get it back.
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I presume you mean the Finder sidebar?
In Finder, open the Preferences, click on Sidebar in the toolbar, and there is an item under "Devices" that is iDisk.
For future reference, you may have better luck posting Finder related questions in the appropriate Finder section of the OS version you are using (Snow Leopard (10.6.x):http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1341, Leopard (10.5.x): http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1221).

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