I'm having trouble removing items from the sidebar in the finder window. I can right click on Applications, and ill have options for it saying "remove from sidebar". However, I have a lot of things on my sidebar that don't even let right click on them and remove them. How do I go about removing things from the sidebar?
I can’t remove items from the sidebar in Finder
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They live in ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist. The "Places" area corresponds to the useritems key. If you have XCode (any version) installed you can use the Property List Editor to read and edit that file; otherwise you'll need to use plutil to convert it to XML and back.
I don't know if you can safely rename the entries in that file; they clearly have aliases defined which point back to the originals, but I don't know if the name is ever used for anything other than display or if the Finder will become confused when the alias and name don't match. Copy the existing one to a backup before playing with it. You may also need to restart the Finder after editing it or copying the backup back into place: Option+right click the Finder icon in the Dock and select "Relaunch".
It's rather simple. Right click on the folder and click "Remove from Sidebar".
EDIT:
Since you specified that after installing the Paragon NTFS driver the folders became un-removable, i suggest that you disable the driver (from the System Preferences preference pane), restart your Mac, and see if the problem persists. If it still persists, remove Paragon NTFS and/or remove your Finder preferences. I will update my answer if disabling it does not work.
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Best Answer
On Lion, items that cannot be removed from the sidebar are usually listed under "Devices" or "Shared" (there are Snow Leopard counterparts to these as well). If you'd rather not see these items in the sidebar, you can remove them by following these steps.
With Finder focused, visit Finder->Preferences or ⌘, and select the Sidebar tab.
Uncheck items that you don't want shown in the sidebar