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My Sidebar has disappeared!

Feb 12, 2011 5:33AM PST

All of a sudden my Sidebar has disappeared and the Show Sidebar item under Finder Views is grayed out!

I've rebuilt the desktop, shut down and restarted -- nothing I can think of will get the Sidebar back. Hope someone can help!

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Try this
Feb 12, 2011 7:30AM PST

in your Home folder, go to Library, Preferences and find com.apple.finder.plist

Drag it to the desktop and restart your computer


See what happens


P

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You need the toolbar
Jun 23, 2011 12:20AM PDT

You might have solved this already, but I figured I would share.

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Thanks
Aug 29, 2011 11:29PM PDT

That fixed it for me!