[jeff k]

Today, I clicked on the sidebar, and the 7 items I keep there were all navigating to my backup Hardrive, not my main hardrive.

Any ideas on that? thanks If I'm not clear, let me know... thanks.

[gbhgbh]

The only thing I can think of is that maybe you booted from the backup instead of the main drive.

[P]

Is your main HD your boot drive? If not, it could be that directories in /Volumes have become mixed up in a crash. By default, OS X makes new directories for all non-boot drives, using the name of said drive, in /Volumes and deletes them as required - e.g "/Volumes/My HDD" for a drive called My HDD. If there is already a directory with that name in /Volumes, it does not reuse that directory, but instead adds a new one called "My HDD 1" or (maybe 2, I don't remember). Presumably sidebar tries to connect things up to hide this.

[jeff k]

I did a reboot to a backup to repair my Mac HD, but then I rebooted back to my Mac HD!

YEs, Mac HD is the boot drive, which I'm on now.

P did not follow all that, but I would guess you are probably right.

So the question then is would you trust the sidebar.

Imagine working on files for a few weeks to find out they are not the main ones?

(I have superduper set to back up from Main HD to a clone— if this goes in reverse all new work is lost)

and btw, all the folders I put on the side bar have nothing to do with the Mac HD.