remove from Favorites?

[Doug Lassiter]

OK, this is maddening. A few days ago I opened a DVD called (for lack of a better name) "stuff". The DVD was removed that day. Now an item called "stuff", with a DVD icon, is sitting in the Favorites sidebar list. I can't get rid of it. I click on it, and it says "'stuff' can't be opened because the original item can't be found". Yep. I try to drag it to the Trash from that Favorites list. Nope, that doesn't work. I drag it to the Desktop, and I get a gray "x" remove symbol. It goes "poof" on the desktop but it doesn't disappear from the sidebar! I control-click it, and am offered to "Open in New Tab", or "Remove from Sidebar". The former says it's an alias that can't be found, and I can't "Delete Alias" or "Fix Alias", because there is nothing to point it at. The latter just doesn't do it.

I can't remove it from the Favorites sidebar. So what the !@#$%^&*( is it doing there and how can I make it go away????

El Cap, iMac

 

[ferrarr]

Open Finder Preferences, is there an option to uncheck "stuff" listed on the "Sidebar" tab?

 

[Doug Lassiter]

Open Finder Preferences, is there an option to uncheck "stuff" listed on the "Sidebar" tab?

No, there is not. Under "Devices", I can uncheck "CDs, DVDs, and iPods", but that has no effect.

Actually, after opening a few other DVDs, "stuff" in favorites is gone, but it is replaced with the titles of those most recently opened DVDs, which have since been unmounted and removed.

I should say that these DVDs aren't being opened by my internal drive, but a new external drive I've just installed. Not that that should make any difference ...

So something makes these "Favorites" eventually go away, but they stick around long past their prime.

 

[ferrarr]

Are you unplugging the USB for the drive at all? After you eject the disc, you can unplug the drive and the "name" should disappear.

 

[Doug Lassiter]

Are you unplugging the USB for the drive at all? After you eject the disc, you can unplug the drive and the "name" should disappear.

Yep, those drive names are gone, as the disks have been removed. The names in "Favorites" remain. So they're Favorites even though they aren't there?? But here's the funny thing. I get up the next morning, and those names in "Favorites" are gone. Huh? Why is it that I can't remove them, and they stay there for hours, but then some internal script removes them later? That's just bizarre. How can something stay a favorite when it isn't there anymore?

 

[pm-r]

Right-click (control-click) on the item called "stuff", with a DVD icon, and use one of the options to "delete" it or get more info etc. and delete it from there as well, in case it's showing up somewhere else as well.

But the "Delete from sidebar" option seems like the most obvious to use.







- Patrick
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[Doug Lassiter]

Right-click (control-click) on the item called "stuff", with a DVD icon, and use one of the options to "delete" it or get more info etc. and delete it from there as well, in case it's showing up somewhere else as well.

But the "Delete from sidebar" option seems like the most obvious to use.
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Yeah, "Remove from Sidebar" is the obvious way to do it. But it doesn't do it! (I can delete other things from Favorites that way but not these absent disk volumes.) They just decide to disappear on their own, in their own good time. Weird.

 

[Rod]

I really think this may have something to do with the, "new external drive I've just installed" because this is not normal mac behavior. What is it, did it come with software and have you installed that software. I have a Sony AC powered USB disk drive which came with an instal package on a mini DVD. The software although listed as Mac OS caused all sorts of issues so I just uninstalled it. Now when I insert either a blank or prerecorded disk it shows up on my desktop (because of my Finder Preferences) and in the sidebar of a Finder window under Devices but that's all. If I use the eject button on the Finder window the tray opens and the Title disappears.