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Nov 9, 2014 4:06 AM in response to Jon Levinsonby keygit,Hi,
on my iMac with OS X 10.9.5 this also happens.
Folders dragged to the favorites sidebar disappear after some time.
These are folders on my local hard disk, no links to network shares.
No solution from Apple?
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Nov 11, 2014 6:56 AM in response to keygitby Crazy4Creativity,To add to the the symptom list...
I am a graphic artist who uses the Adobe Suite on a daily basis and I've also been noticing that when I mount our server share by clicking on an existing link in the favorites sidebar, the server share mounts but then when I try to open any document, whether it be a Word doc or an Adobe Suite document, I get the "Application cannot be found" error dialogue. I then have to eject the server share (which eliminates all shortcuts in the favorites sidebar) and reconnect by going to the file menu and Go then Connect to Server. This method always works. Very strange. My shortcuts sporadically disappear too for no particular reason. I can come back in the morning and they will all be gone. Here at my work network, there are probably over 200 PCs connected (IT, Finance) and 2 macs (Us creatives). I suspect SMB2 also. I have Yosemite set to connect using SMB and AFP right now so I'm trying AFP only to see.... Stay tuned.
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Nov 11, 2014 1:05 PM in response to Crazy4Creativityby Erick Mikiten,This is happening for me in Yosemite as well. The folders seem to be disappearing with even more frequency than they were in Mavericks. My hope that this would be fixed in the new OS are sadly dashed.
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Nov 12, 2014 8:41 AM in response to Jon Levinsonby Christopher Jennings,My office has the same problem. 4 computers connected to a Mac Pro server. The dropped finder shortcuts started as soon as we updated from Mountain Lion to Mavericks. I have been researching, posting in forums and sending complaints via Apple's feedback form for a year now and so it goes...
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Nov 15, 2014 12:11 AM in response to Jon Levinsonby enervatix,I found that restarting nmb or smb on the file server makes it re-appear in finder, I'm guessing it's something to do with OSX removing the drive if it hasn't seen any packets from it, in my experience it always disappears when the mac has been asleep.
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Dec 8, 2014 2:03 AM in response to mpiet.opisby mistereb,If I might offer my humble opinion:
This very frustrating issue probably stems from an earlier OS X problem with the Sidebar. Do you remember that if you dragged a folder to the sidebar to create the shortcut but then deleted the original folder/item then you couldn't delete the link (unless you re-created a 'dummy' file so that you could delete the sidebar link first)?
This seems like a rather heavy-handed attempt to make sure that if any source folder is 'deleted' (i.e. network shortcut not automatically mounted) then the link is immediately deleted. [Try it with a folder on your desktop then delete it]. Very clumsy.
Folder of Aliases works well for now.
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Jan 15, 2015 3:14 PM in response to Woopby NellieNetExtreme,★HelpfulGuys - there is a "Show/Hide" choice that appears only when you hover over it. It can easily be clicked in error. If you see "Favorites" in the upper left hand corner of the Finder window, hover over that word or just to the right of it and you should see the "Show/Hide" choice appear.
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Jan 23, 2015 7:47 AM in response to NellieNetExtremeby BuckyThreadkiller,Not the issue. That hides the entire column section. This concerns Favorites that are dragged to Favorites sidebar from a server. Local Favorites links remain, but when you disconnect and reconnect to the server, the server based Favorites vanish. It's a PITA.
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Jan 23, 2015 8:41 AM in response to BuckyThreadkillerby Erick Mikiten,This is still a problem on the new MBP I just moved to. I did NOT migrate my old User Account, so it’s not that. I also have a person in my office on a Mac Pro, who never gets off the network, who loses network folders from her Sidebar on occasion.
Here’s my temporary solution:
Install DefaultFolder. It gives you a drop-down menu of Favorites in:
1. Your main menu bar.
2. The top of finder windows.
3. Open and Save dialogues.
I have all my old favorites there, and they never disappear. It also shows Recent locations, which is fantastic. Apple’s implementation of Recent locations has a lot to be desired, and Default Folder does it right.
There are a plethora of options and adjustments that you can make to the setup, and it’s very solid software. Tech support is also spooky responsive.
Erick
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Jan 27, 2015 6:48 AM in response to Jon Levinsonby PBinHtown,Just wanted to add my name to the chorus of folks asking for this to be fixed.
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Jan 29, 2015 2:15 PM in response to Jon Levinsonby andregellert,Me , too.
0.) I see the TC, but when i click on the server in sidebar, i get no drive icon.
Just to add my experience:
1.) changed Time Capsule Gen 2 to actual generation, same problem.
2.) Started with OSX 10.10 (?maybe)3.) APPLE K in Finder brings back the drive, but shortcut in Sidebar still is broken.
4.) Disable and re-enable WIFI helps to bring back Sidebar link. -
Feb 4, 2015 7:08 AM in response to andregellertby natedog828,This has been a problem in 10.9, and is still an issue in 10.10.2. This is a huge pain in an enterprise environment, and it afflicts my users daily. I haven't found a fix or work around that is solid.
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Feb 4, 2015 11:51 AM in response to natedog828by Erick Mikiten,Natedog828, in case you didn’t see my previous post, we’re using Default Folder X in our 4-person office, and it’s made navigating much easier.
Although I would love to see this longstanding problem with the Sidebar fixed (I always prefer a built-in solution to an add-on), Default Folder X is great. If Apple fixed the Sidebar issue, I’d still use DFX for it’s ability to provide other controls, such as accurate recent folders (another Apple weakness), and lots of customizability.
Erick
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Feb 6, 2015 7:48 AM in response to Jon Levinsonby cpguru21,I just wanted to add my 2C on this and what I have seen.
Like many of you, I have the disappearing favorite folders for network drives. The standard favorite options you select in finder settings seem to stay without a problem. Some of my users are accessing these network folders on a daily, or multiple times a day. IE critical to business.
One of the biggest issues I see is, once connected to a network resource, under devices, the drives don't show up like the older OS's. As an example, I have users that connect to 192.168.1.4/common/ (a common repository that houses exports from a database) which is an smb share on an IBM power 8 (AIX 7). Under devices, you may see 192.168.1.4 but when you click on it you do not see the share "common". It DOES however show on the desktop (the share drive "common").
Additionally we are also having the favorite folders disappear (after we drag on over). This is happening for an OSX 10.6.8 server (AFP and SMB) and the IBM server.
My fix has been a log in script that auto connects any of the drives automatically on log in. It is a "tell" app that also passes username and password to access the share. This seems to be the only way I have been able to have users avoid the disappearing favorite folders. I am not sure if it works the same as (after connecting to the share) dragging the drive to your log in items. This may accomplish the same thing as my app (along with remember password checked off)
I still view this as a bug.