Sidebar items gone in finder?

Just wondering, but I don't see my sidebar items in the finder anymore like I thought it was before: No music, photo's movies items. However, when I open a document from within an application, they are still there. Is this normal?
André

I presume you want them in the Places section, and that your home folder is already there. Just click the home to open it, then drag any folder you want to the Places section. You can add and remove folders there any time you want, drag to add, drag off to subtract. Anything you drag off disappears in a poof of smoke as soon as you release it.
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High!
Of course me searched a lot but apparently this seems rather unusual. Good for you.
Thing is: the items in my sidebar (finder-window-sidebar) disappear at almost every startup - plus, sometimes spontaneously.* Wicked.
All those vanishing folders are from my second internal disc.
I :
- cleared ALL caches (multiple times)
- trashed the sidebar.plist plus the finder.plist (mulitple times)
- executed pretty much all remaining troubleshooting routines known to mackind
I'm running 10.4.6 but this actually started to happen as soon as switchin' to tiger.
At that time (in January) I did a model-clean-install - so I don't really believe in startin' from scratch.
Also, everything (else) just works beautifulliest. Finder-wise and beyond.
As a matter of course I ain't got no fancy Finder-Extensions/Modifications installed.
Naturally I love you, but if you could help me to solve this issue I would idolize you over and above.
Thank you for your time.
Vibes
Werner
(* All is fine, I copy stuff and such, then I switch to Photoshop, InDesign or whatever and in the Open-Dialogue: they're gone... This only happens on the Quad)
Quad (6.5 GB), iMac G5 (1.5 GB) Mac OS X (10.4.6) Quad: AP, BT, 7800GT, 30" ACD, int. Raptor+Hitachi, ext. 2x500GB FW800, iSight

Hi there!
One week in the life of a corkscrew...
So I performed all the tasks mentioned in my last post.*
Then installed the 10.4.7 Combo Update.
Sadly, same ol' situation.
But:
Like mentioned in my first post, the disappearing sidebar-folders are from my second internal disk.
Now somethin' attracted my attention; I don't know how this could have slipped my perception. Whenever I repair permissions on THIS harddisk it, of course, gets ejected first**. That's when the folders get lost. They vanish and don't come back. As far as I can remember with Panther the sidebar-items stayed there - even if a disk wasn't mounted. (No icon after reboot, but still a plain folder...) Also that's the reason why folders from the system-disk remain - it never gets ejected.
Neither an alias nor a symbolic-link helps to keep them in the sidebar.
I totally reproduced this on my iMac. So obviously it's a tiger bug, isn't it? Could you please confirm before I write Apple; since it's strange there's nothin' on the internets about this.
Perhaps there's some kind of workaround/solution?!
Me wonder...
Peaceout, thanks -
Werner
* Macjack, I used the cache cleansing and maintenance commands provided by MainMenu
** And this (the ejection) apparently (and on my setup) happens not only when repairing permissions but from time to time... and MAYBE since my second disk is in "Slot A" it SEEMS unpredictable ('cause sometimes it's mounted first and all...) Maybe.
Plus:
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When I login, all of my desktop items are gone, the "Finder" icon is bouncing and a message asking to restore windows is blinking but unresponsive. I can't exit out of it. What do I do? I've tried force quitting, and it doesn't get rid of this message. When I login to my husband's account, this message does not appear.

Hey sunnyday7!
Here is an article that can help you address this issue:
OS X: How to quit an unresponsive application using Force Quit
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3411
Additional Information
OS X automatically relaunches the Finder when it is quit. If the Finder is unresponsive, use Force Quit to relaunch it. Select Finder in the Force Quit Window or Dock, then click Relaunch.
Thanks for using the Apple Support Communities. Have a good one!
-Braden

How to remove MULTIPLE sidebar items from finder?

I accidentally dragged about 1,000 folders into my finder sidbar. Crap. I'd really like to get rid of them quickly and not have to drag them out one at a time. Any ideas? I tried trashing the com.apple.sidebarlists.plist but it didn't do the trick.

Thanks Tony. This helped me figure out the problem!
I have Path Finder installed and it turns out that the Path Finder plist was also storing the sidebar items. If I just trashed the finder and sidebar plists, the Path Finder plist would automatically repopulate the items. Trashing all three plists at the same time with Path Finder closed then relaunching Finder solved the issue!
Thanks again, that was a clever trick.

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I find this extremely annoying as well. Of course you can drag any volume to the favorites list - BUT - if you unmount them, they do NOT reappear there when they are re-mounted. You have to manually add them back again.
Also, I work with a lot of volumes that require frequent mounting and un-mounting. It's a time waster to try and keep them in the favorites list so I've given up.
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Seems like Apple is going out of their way making things MORE difficult for the Pro user as they try to simplify things for "switchers" and for the "rest of us...".
While I'm on a roll, I find that every time there is a big issue from us users about something that has been changed in the OS with an update, more and more of the solutions are from power users that post up terminal commands to rectify those issues, or try to direct people on how to edit .plist files. These people are certainly trying to help but working in the terminal is VERY risky business for the average user.
Configurability from the Finder is slowly going away with every new OS incarnation, forcing average users to dig deeper into areas they should NOT have to be dealing with. You see the problem here?
And lastly, I'm not hater. Far from it. I've been a loyal customer for 20 years which is why it's so sad and frustrating to me.
It's just that I hate to watch this slow yet steady progression into the pale grey realms of un-configurability...
d

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I'm sorry to hear that.
I'm not affiliated w/ the developer, just a happy user that gave up fighting the apple podcast app a while ago. I used to have a bunch of smart playlists in itunes for my podcasts, and come home every day and pathologically synced my phone as soon as I walked in the door, and again before I walked out the door in the morning.
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