Poofing Problems
I’ve always thought that the way things “poofed” when you dragged them out of the sidebar was cute. But the first time I accidentally dragged a CD from the Sidebar, poofing wasn’t cute at all. It was really annoying.
I don’t like extra icons cluttering up my desktop. So I have my Finder preferences set to display hard drives, connected servers, CDs, DVDs and iPods in the Finder window’s Sidebar.
The first time I wanted to eject a disk in OS X, I tried dragging into the Trash, just like I had always done in OS 9. The icon poofed and the disk didn’t eject. I did manage to eject the disk, but the next time I inserted a CD, it didn’t show up in Sidebar.
It seems that when you poof removable media such as CDs, OS X thinks you never want to see them in sidebar. You can fix this problem by going to Finder preferences and clicking on the Sidebar button. Click on the checkbox next to Removable media and your CDs are back in the Sidebar.
