Removing finder sidebar items?

[cpizanias]

What's the best way to go about this? I saw people recommending mysides but xcode hates me and I can't compile it for some reason. Can someone put it up on dropbox or something? https://github.com/mosen/mysides

Conversely is there a way to remove finder sidebar items using sfltool? If there is i'm not seeing a way. Thanks!

[scottb]

@cpizanias

Here is a good thread with a few options.

[djdavetrouble · Accepted solution]

i run this once per user per computer scoped at login.

/usr/local/bin/mysides remove All My Files file:///System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Resources/MyLibraries/myDocuments.cannedSearch/
/usr/local/bin/mysides remove iCloud x-apple-finder:icloud
/usr/local/bin/mysides remove domain-AirDrop nwnode://domain-AirDrop
/usr/bin/sfltool add-item com.apple.LSSharedFileList.FavoriteItems file:///Users/$3
/usr/bin/sfltool add-item com.apple.LSSharedFileList.FavoriteItems file:///Users/$3/Desktop
/usr/bin/sfltool add-item com.apple.LSSharedFileList.FavoriteItems file:///Users/$3/Documents
/usr/bin/sfltool add-item com.apple.LSSharedFileList.FavoriteItems file:///Users/$3/Downloads
/usr/bin/sfltool add-item com.apple.LSSharedFileList.FavoriteItems file:///Users/$3/Movies
/usr/bin/sfltool add-item com.apple.LSSharedFileList.FavoriteItems file:///Users/$3/Music
/usr/bin/sfltool add-item com.apple.LSSharedFileList.FavoriteItems file:///Users/$3/Pictures
touch /Users/$3/.sidebarshortcuts
killall cfprefsd
sleep 1
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Add :networkbrowser:CustomListProperties:com.apple.NetworkBrowser.backToMyMacEnabled bool False" /Users/$3/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Add :networkbrowser:CustomListProperties:com.apple.NetworkBrowser.bonjourEnabled bool False" /Users/$3/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist

[djdavetrouble]

there is a pkg on the releases page:
https://github.com/mosen/mysides/releases

[cpizanias]

Thanks all!

[francksartori]

Hi.
Did you find any instructions to build this project ?
I've downloaded it and built Products > mysides (so it is "black").
Then I launch the provided Makefile script but it fails to put the binary in a package and then in a disk image.
So I've done a Control-Click on Products > mysides, then "Show in Finder" so I can grab the binary from a Xcode debug folder.
Do you have any hints to make the building normal ?
Best regards.
Franck.

[cpizanias]

@francksartori I couldn't figure it out either so what I did was find the recipe for it on Autopkg and used it that way.

[francksartori]

Hi.
See also : https://github.com/mosen/mysides/issues/6
Unfortunately, the binary is not reliably usable.
Best regards.

[JayDuff]

Is there any reason NOT to use Composer's User Environment > Sidebar feature? Then you check FEU and FUT and deploy on first boot.

[Wakko]

@JayDuff I 100% agree with you. Why load something else up when you can do it this tried and proven way.

[L3nny5]

Does using Composer's User Environment > Sidebar feature still work for you? For me it only adds some of the changes I made. Custom folders never work...

[rgerman]

More problems with the script... looks like my rm command is throwing errors.

[rgerman]

x

[jamesdh]

For anyone still following this or coming here via the Googles, I've gone ahead and added mysides to homebrew casks

Installing should be as easy as...

brew cask install mysides

Cheers!