Is there a way to backup my finder sidebar "Favorites" on the left with all my shortcuts to folders on our network drive?
Is this sidebar stored in a file somewhere that I can backup?
Every once in a while the whole sidebar is messed up, so all network folders are gone or the name is just a ? instead of the real folder name.
If there are many folders it takes way too long to restore all of that by hand (and also I can't remember all those folders until I need it and notice that it's missing).
Best Answer
The sidebar will forget those mounted network aliases every time it can't find one.
The 'fix', although a bit clunky, is to mount the remote drives, directly alias them on the desktop, then move the aliases somewhere permanent.
Then they never break.