Why do items (folders) I place in the sidebar disappear overnight? Seriously, Yosemite?

Do a backup.
Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Select Library. Then go to Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist. Move the .plist to your desktop.
Re-launch Finder by restarting the computer and test. If it works okay, delete the plist from the desktop.
If the same, return the .plist to where you got it from, overwriting the newer one.
Thanks to leonie for some information contained in this.

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To drag an item out of the Sidebar, hold down the command key and just drag it to the Desktop - it will 'whoosh' and disappear from the Sidebar. To add folders, just drag them to the Sidebar.
Hope this helps.
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Same question.
I recently left Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion.
Previously, in the side bar of Mail, (the one you make visible using "Show" in a previous post here), I was able to drag and drop any of the Reception mailboxes to the place I wanted to select, to put them in the order I wished, and this order remained until I decide to change it.
This seems not possible any more, or... just for the current session. If I close Mail and reopen, Reception boxes are re-ordered in alphabetic way.
Any way to make my choice permanent as before ???
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Email seems to be sent, but it doesn't arrive. No 'unable to send' message, sent items and draft folders are empty. The mail disappears.

Email seems to be sent, but it doesn't arrive. No 'unable to send' message, sent items and draft folders are empty. The mail disappears. I tried to fully turn off the iPad and have it restart. But it doesn't go off. I keep seeing the small white 'turning wheel' untill the battery is gone. After that, it works again (and so does the e-mail). This happens about every week. What can I do?

*there's no reason to be paranoid*
Says Mulder .
Anyway, as I mentioned, I don't use any sync-able email, just a very plain-jane POP email provider. iSync reports no devices and has nothing in its log, which matches my never having installed anything in need of syncing.
The thing is, if Mail says its sending something when nothing was ever sent, that's a largish bug whether it is actually sending something or isn't, and there isn't really enough info here to know which of those are the case. Maybe Mail just displays "Sending" because an attempt to do something reasonable is timing out, maybe it does an innocuous and normal POP thing using very confusing nomenclature, or maybe it's really trying to send something which has a wrong flag or something. There isn't really enough info to know what is going on, so I was hoping someone could identify the symptoms.

Why can't folders be bigger on the homepage of IPads,phones,and pods?, Why can't folders be bigger on the homepage of IPads,phones,and pods?

Why can't they uses the swipe feature like they do for multiple pages of apps? It gets frustrating having a whole bunch of folders that have the same content.

They probably can. They simply do not.

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Many site issues can be caused by corrupt cookies or cache. In order to try to fix these problems, the first step is to clear both cookies and the cache.
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''To exit the Firefox Safe Mode, just close Firefox and wait a few seconds before opening Firefox for normal use again.''
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Is there a way I can keep these external folders on the sidebar, without creating a real alias on my hard drive and copying that onto the sidebar?
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Hi,
I have a problem with my OS X 10.5.8 Server. I just can't connect to my shared folders with the finder's sidebar. when i use the workaround with "apple+k" it works absolutely fine.
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we have a similar problem at our office. Occasionally we cant connect to shared items in the sidebar of Finder. If an alias was set in "places" of the sidebar or on the right side of the separator on the dock, you can still connect, even though the connection to a shared item fails.
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Message was edited by: jodyb17

Cannot place file in sidebar of Mac OS X Lion

in Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6.x) I was able to place a file on the sidebar and when I clicked on it, it would open. Mac OS X Lion does not allow placing a file ( a .doc file, for example) in the sidebar. I know I need to convert an alias to a certain type of alias that works with Lion (and Unix), but I cannot find the instructions in the "Communities" any more. Thanks for any help.

I found this answer elsewhere in the communities. Works fine.
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After rebooting, why do folders in Places sidebar disappear?

After shutdown and start-up, some folders disappear from the Place sidebar while others are intact. Why is that and what can I do to fix it? Is it a library preference issue? I have used the Mac Disk Utility to verify and repair permissions but that does not work at all.
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guitahplayah wrote:
After shutdown and start-up, some folders disappear from the Place sidebar while others are intact.
Which Folders?
With Finder displayed on your menu bar, go to: Finder > Preferences > select the Sidebar tab and check the boxes next to the Sidebar Items that you want showing.
I could be wrong, but I think that only the Folders from your Home Folder that have the little symbols in them will stick in the Places Sidebar and that ever thing else should be placed into one of them?
Dennis

What is the difference between the "sent" and "sent items" folders?

My email is in the "sent" folder but not the "sent items" folder. How do I know my email has actually been sent?
Why are there two folders?
Can I just use one?
Thanks in advance for any help.

If anyone was interested I was able to find a relevant question here:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1015564
<blockquote >
Emails sent from Thunderbird go into the "Sent" folder. Emails from Android phone go into the "Sent Items" folder. MS Outlook sees both, but TB only sees "Sent"
</blockquote>
This webpage was helpful:
http://helpdesk.princeton.edu/kb/display.plx?ID=9430
<blockquote >
Sent vs. Sent Items <br>
In Thunderbird, the Sent folder (located on the IMAP mail server) retains a copy of each of your outgoing e-mail messages. This is a function that can be altered in the preferences, but is most often configured in this way on the Princeton campus. '''Outlook does not recognize that the Sent folder is any different from any other e-mail folder. Outlook's equivalent of the Sent folder is called Sent Items and is generally stored locally rather than on the central mail server.''' When you begin using Outlook, copies of your outgoing e-mail messages will be stored in the Sent Items folder. The Help Desk recommends that you create a rule to send copies of your Outgoing messages to your Sent folder on the IMAP server. See Solution 9202 for instruction.
</blockquote>
This one also:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-001/office-online-help/set-up-email-in-mozilla-thunderbird-8-0-HA102823188.aspx
<blockquote>
If you’re using an incoming POP3 server, you can only synchronize your Inbox folder. If you’re using IMAP4, you can choose the folders that you want Thunderbird to synchronize with the server. Remember that IMAP4 doesn’t support the synchronization of the Contacts and Calendar folders. '''Thunderbird uses a folder named Sent to store sent items. Exchange and Outlook Web App use a folder named Sent Items.''' You can synchronize the email items that you’ve sent in Thunderbird with the Sent Items folder on the Exchange server. To do this, follow these steps:
</blockquote>
This is about the “sent mail” rule:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/isd/staff/mail/configure/thunderbird/sent_mail_rule

Why does Bridge always lose track of the Favorites folders I put into it?

(Latest version of Bridge)
I haven't used Bridge in a while because of this problem.
When you click on one of your Favorites folders in the panel on the far
left side, the folder comes up with a question mark and it can't find anything!
Why does this happen?
Even though the original location of the files or folders was never moved or renamed.. Bridge loses track of the folders I put into it?
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Here's the boilerplate text referenced by Omke;
I still advocate Repairing Permissions (with Apple's Disk Utility) before AND after any system update or upgrade, as well as before AND after installing any software that requires an installer that asks for your password.
I have seen software installations go sour because the installer did not find everything as and where it should be.
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Mac OS X performs background maintenance tasks at certain times if the computer is not in sleep mode. If your computer is shut down or in sleep at the designated times, the maintenance does not occur. In that case, you may want or need to run these manually.
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Also, from: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106978
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NOTE:
There have been comments to the effect that Apple "fixed" this in 10.4.2 and later versions of the OS, but I have not been able to verify this to my satisfaction. The reference in the 10.4.2 release notes are far from explicit on this subject.
= = =
If you have DiskWarrior, run it regularly too.

Why do items disappear when moved to the desktop?

Why do items disappear when moved to the desktop?

Are you perhaps referring to dragging an item out of the Dock and onto the Desktop?
If so, they are intended to poof-disappear when you do that.
The reason - the icons shown in the Dock are a form of alias, not the real item. Any running app will have its icon shown there; and those that do appear there can be made to stick even when the program is quit. This means that there must be a mechanism to get rid of them, else there would eventually be too many. One way is to right-click or Control-click the item, then select Remove from the popup menu that appears. A more convenient way is to just drag them off of the Dock and have them disappear.
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