Sidebar Problems

I've noticed something strange on my Mac recently. When I'm in an application (any application it doesn't matter) and select "Save As", I can see multiple copies (currently 4 copies) of the Desktop Icon in the Sidebar of the popup window which you use to specify where to save a file. Also occurring but less common, I've noticed multiple copies of other icons automatically appearring in my Sidebar, when I open a new folder. So I start of with one copy "Applications", "Utilities" etc, then next I notice I've got two copies of these icons displayed in the Sidebar, then 3 then 4 copies of each etc. Any suggestions on how to fix this would be appreciated.

Hi Riki, Welcome to Apple Discussions.
1. Drag all Desktop icons off your Finder sidebar.
2. In Finder >> Preferences >> Sidebar UNcheck all options.
3. navigate to ~(yourhome)/library/preferences and trash these two files:
com.apple.finder.plist
com.apple.sidebarlists.plist
Then log out and back in again. Or restart.
(You will have to reset a few finder prefs the way you like them.)
-mj
[email protected]

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