Monday, January 05, 2009

Two Desktop icons in Open File sidebar


I recently had a problem similar to this one:

Fix multiple ghost aliases in the Finder's sidebar

I had two Desktop icons in the sidebar of my Open File dialog boxes, in all of my applications. I had only one Desktop icon in the sidebar of my Finder, though. The advice on that page is good advice, but you don't have to trash the sidebarlists.plist file. Instead you can edit it with the Property List Editor, and under "useritems" you'll find the duplicate entries that are giving you grief. Delete one of them, save it, and then - this is key - logout and log back in.



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