I had a hard drive failure and am temporarily using a machine which can only be brought up to El Capitan.
I have a sidebar problem that is driving me crazy. The configuration of the sidebar favorites is "stuck". If I make a change (such as reordering the list or deleting a folder), after a logout, the sidebar configuration reverts to one I made a long time ago.
I have tried trashing the Finder and Sidebar preferences, quitting the Finder, logging out and restarting with no joy.
I looked in com.apple.sidebar.plist and compared it to the file I have on my Yosemite machine and it is quite limited. Specifically, it is missing an entry called "favoriteItems" which has a child "CustomListItems" that seems to hold the info needed to make the sidebar look the way I want.
I have actually been having a lot of strange "things not sticking" issues on this machine – most seem to be solved, but this one isn’t. I checked the permissions on my ~/library and ~/library/preferences files and I do have rw privileges
Is the sidebar favorites configuration stored differently on El Capitan vs. Yosemite?
