Finder Sidebar Broken in Leopard (updated)

[Kevin Callahan]

On Nov 1, 2007, at 3:20 AM, David Herren wrote:

> On Oct 31, 2007, at 7:43 PM, Andrew Merenbach wrote:
>
>> A quick note: I just tried again and the sidebar works in both  
>> cases.  Unfortunately, I still recall it not working as of the past  
>> couple of days.  The thing that's different now is that I don't  
>> have any external drives attached (and no way to attach them just  
>> yet, as I'm away from my drives).
>>
>> My question now is: Has anyone seen unmounting problems, or sidebar  
>> problems in general, and if so--what are the circumstances under  
>> which those problems occur?
>
> You're not crazy...I've seen this as well. Drives which won't  
> unmount now but an hour later when I try again unmount just fine...  
> I think it's possible that something is keeping a file open on those  
> external drives and when those files are finally closed, the drive  
> can be unmounted. Possibly a spotlight index? Time Machine looking  
> at the drive?
>
> /david


I burned a CD in iTunes yesterday.  Even though the disc has long been  
ejected, there's a FOLDER named "Audio CD" in my Devices in the Finder  
sidebar.  The burn wasn't named Audio CD, but nonetheless, there's a  
folder sitting there with that title.  Can't delete it.

K