Deleting aliases from the toolbar (OS 10.4.11)

There must be an easy way to do this, but I haven't found it.

A long time ago I accidentally installed an alias to a particular
folder in the toolbar at the top of the Finder window. I haven't found
anywhere to remove it: it can't be dragged to the trash, pressing the
delete key doesn't do it, and I can'r find anything in either System or
Finder preferences. The other day I thought it might go away if I
trashed the folder that it refers to, so now it displays a big question
mark instead of a folder icon, and if I click on that it says "The item
cannot be found". I thought the question mark might go away if I
restarted the computer, but it didn't.

So, how to get rid of an icon accidentally put in the toolbar?
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athel

In article <66hgbjF2k4godU1.DeleteThis@mid.individual.net>,
Athel Cornish-Bowden <athel_cb.DeleteThis@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> There must be an easy way to do this, but I haven't found it.
>
> A long time ago I accidentally installed an alias to a particular
> folder in the toolbar at the top of the Finder window. I haven't found
> anywhere to remove it: it can't be dragged to the trash, pressing the
> delete key doesn't do it, and I can'r find anything in either System or
> Finder preferences. The other day I thought it might go away if I
> trashed the folder that it refers to, so now it displays a big question
> mark instead of a folder icon, and if I click on that it says "The item
> cannot be found". I thought the question mark might go away if I
> restarted the computer, but it didn't.
>
> So, how to get rid of an icon accidentally put in the toolbar?

Control-click (or right-click) on the icon and choose "Remove Item" from
the context menu.