Untitled DVD Burn Folder in Finder Sidebar

by Neena

I recently burned backed up my iPhoto library by burning the entire thing to a series of DVD’s.

After finishing this project – I deleted all of the burn folders from my desktop. But for some odd reason they remained in my Finder sidebar. I tried clicking on them, pressing delete, and a whole bunch of other stuff. Yet these old DVD burn folders still remained in the Finder sidebar.

Very annoying.

Recently I came across the solution and could not believe how simple it was.

All I needed to do was to drag the offending item out of the sidebar. Basically I opened a finder window. Clicked on one of these untitled DVD burn folders and dragged it into a blank area of the desktop.

And with a puff of virtual Apple smoke – the item disappeared forever.

I love it when things are easy!

Tagged as: apple, dvd burn folders, finder, mac computers, sidebar

{ 16 comments… read them below or add one }

David June 30, 2010 at 3:51 am

how simple some fixes can be!

thanks very much, I’ve been looking at such an empty burn-folder in my sidebar for 6 months. Never felt the urge to actually do anything about it but it just wasn’t nice. Just fixed it in 0.5 sec.

Michael August 10, 2010 at 12:15 am

Thank you! An annoying bug squashed.

Sarico December 8, 2010 at 4:44 am

Great! Simple and fast! Thank you!

Shaun July 1, 2011 at 5:06 pm

I’ve been trying to get rid of a burn folder for weeks now. Dragging it out doesn’t work – any other ideas?

matt August 24, 2011 at 7:59 pm

I have the same problem. I am unable to drag the folders out of the finder menu. Can anyone help with this? I’ve even tried removing the item from the library preferences folder.

Mick September 15, 2011 at 3:54 am

Hi, exactly the same issue, backed up my photo’s and now have three burn folders that i can’t remove. Dragging off the sidebar doesn’t work either, any ideas?

Mick September 15, 2011 at 5:53 am

Fixed my issue stated above

1. Go to Disk Utility in “Utilities”
2. Select Burn on the top row
3. When the pop up window opens, just drag the offending Untitled DVDs off the sidebar
4. Close the window and disk utility and you’re done

Hope this helps anyone else stuck like me

Ath November 7, 2011 at 6:46 pm