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Help with erroneous finder prefs
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I cloned a drive to a new HD using CCC and then replaced the old source drive with another new HD, naming it the same as the resected HD, and immediately ran into this problem. Booting from the new cloned drive (not the new "same name" drive), all of the icons in the "Places" list, and those added using the FInder preferences, point to the old source drive name, the newly replaced "old name" drive, not the cloned new drive.  This is a potential "Data Loss" situation! Manually deleting the Places list and dragging icons in from the correct location produced an instant cure, but  anything added using the FInder preferences produces an erroneous icon.  
I tried deleting the finder preferences plist file in my user library, but it didn't correct the issue. Is this related to an error in the cloning operation, requiring some other solution?
This is on a PowerMac G5, late 2005. Running latest version of Leopard. Any help much appreciated.
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Last edited by David Lee; Apr 3, 2009 at 04:56 PM.
Reason: clarity)
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Clinically Insane
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In order for deleting a preferences file to take effect, you have to do it while the program isn't running (at least for whatever user the preferences belong to). Otherwise the preferences will stay in memory and get rewritten when it quits.
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Chuck
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The items in the Sidebar are based on file paths. When you changed the name of your drive, you broke the link. The appropriate file to delete is ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist. As was pointed out above, when you delete it, you need to either Force Quit the Finder or log out and log in.
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Thanks so much, will give that a try. And log out immediately after trashing that file.
---- logging out --
OK! That worked and problem solved! (This is one reason I love this forum, everyone has areas of expertise, and most are very helpful!)
Thanks Guys
Much appreciated.
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Last edited by David Lee; Apr 3, 2009 at 06:04 PM.
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And next time don't rely on CCC.
Instead use Apple's built in fast and stable cloning tool.
/Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility > Restore.
Select erase destination for bootable clones in block-copy mode (fast!).
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Last edited by Simon; Apr 4, 2009 at 01:34 PM.
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Just to clarify... CCC was not the cause of this problem. Otherwise, Simon's advice is correct.
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Well, yes and no. Apple stores aliases to the sidebar items, not paths. While aliases do contain the paths to the items they reference, they also store the file system IDs, upon which they can fall back if the path is not valid. If you do a block copy with Disk Utility, you'll copy everything exactly as it was on the original disk, including the file system IDs, and then you should be able to rename the hard disk to whatever you want without breaking any aliases. Using CCC in this case caused an additional step, deleting the preferences, to be necessary.
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