Jon Levinson

Q: why folders disappear from finder sidebar in mavericks?

Why do, for no apparent reason, the folders I have added to the Finder's sidebar just disappear when I open a Finder window?

Posted on Nov 13, 2013 7:53 AM

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  • by lowhaznick,

    lowhaznick lowhaznick Sep 28, 2015 5:10 AM in response to Paulman!
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    Sep 28, 2015 5:10 AM in response to Paulman!

    I find it really frustrating too, since upgrading from 10.6.8 to 10.10.5. I've left feedback here on the recommendation of someone at Apple Developer:

    http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

  • by Paulman!,

    Paulman! Paulman! Sep 28, 2015 8:16 AM in response to lowhaznick
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    Sep 28, 2015 8:16 AM in response to lowhaznick

    I will leave feedback there as well. I am beyond frustrated that the OS keeps looking more and more like Windows stuff. I could never find anything in windows search as well as losing the sidebar stuff, (that i put there so i could find it). Now the newest OS is such a bad, horrible, terrible, frustrating, P.O.S. that apple has ever put out in an OS.

     

    I did a search for .skp on my machine over the weekend to look for a file that, for some reason, wasn't in the folder I saved it in for YEARS. My computer said I didn;t have any .skp files? - I literally have hundreds of them, so I looked in the "all my files" link on the sidebar and nothing. I had to open individual random folders and I finally found it. Did a search again and still not showing in the search???? I've already done the re-=indexing, and a few other things, but the most recent version is garbage. The last time the OS worked was snow leapord. I loved that OS and used it as long as I possible coould, but creative cloud doesn't work with it, so I had to upgrade. To have a new and "improved" OS go sa far backwards that I can't even use it, is super frustrating.

     

    I will complain in every place i can until it get fixed, or I use a third party work around.

  • by thomas91la,

    thomas91la thomas91la Sep 29, 2015 1:22 AM in response to Jon Levinson
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    Sep 29, 2015 1:22 AM in response to Jon Levinson

    It is unbelievable this has not been fixed. I really thought my new installation was already broken. But it seems no...

    Please Apple fix this important issue. I'm managing 12 users/computers around me, my colleagues are driving crazy... :-(

  • by Colbster182,

    Colbster182 Colbster182 Sep 29, 2015 9:10 AM in response to thomas91la
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    Sep 29, 2015 9:10 AM in response to thomas91la

    Apple doesn't care about fixing anything. They just make pretty hardware with crappy software that only works properly half the time, then they charge the poor, deluded fools twice as much as it's worth.

  • by BakerJ,

    BakerJ BakerJ Sep 29, 2015 3:30 PM in response to NellieNetExtreme
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    Sep 29, 2015 3:30 PM in response to NellieNetExtreme

    Wow, human error after all. Thanks for this!

  • by ArtherDaily,

    ArtherDaily ArtherDaily Oct 2, 2015 2:08 AM in response to BakerJ
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    Oct 2, 2015 2:08 AM in response to BakerJ

    I called the Apple Support and they confirmed this is expected behaviour in 10.10.5 as you are not connected to the server.  Suggested that third party apps might be able to help me.  Someone obviously didn't take the thought step and say well expected behaviour would be also to put them back once you reconnect ! that would be genius. 

  • by stationerygirl,

    stationerygirl stationerygirl Oct 8, 2015 5:36 AM in response to Jon Levinson
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    Oct 8, 2015 5:36 AM in response to Jon Levinson

    Just wanted to mention that this just started happening to me in the last month or so. No upgrade in operating system. However, I have updated my Adobe Suite to the "cloud" version....probably has nothing to do with this.

     

    For me, it is not happening to shared server folders (as I am not on a server), but it is happening to my Dropbox folders (which are sort of a type of shared folder, I realize). I've had these shortcuts on this MacBook Pro for at least 3 years with no issue. Now all of a sudden they are disappearing (but not all at once. One folder will disappear one day and then a different one will disappear a week later...folder whac-a-mole)!  I have not disconnected my computer either (as I work from home).

  • by brycesteiner,

    brycesteiner brycesteiner Oct 8, 2015 7:09 AM in response to ArtherDaily
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    Oct 8, 2015 7:09 AM in response to ArtherDaily

    What I have done on the computer is to make my own solution that I read on the forums here. Make a folder under your user called "alias" or something that you like. Then add that to the sidebar. After that put aliases of the folders/drives that you want in there. Then when you disconnect from the network, the alias' will still be in there ready for when you are going to reconnect.

  • by Lionchild,

    Lionchild Lionchild Oct 8, 2015 10:09 AM in response to ArtherDaily
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    Oct 8, 2015 10:09 AM in response to ArtherDaily

    Wow.  "Working as intended," seems to be the answer you're getting from Apple.  That doesn't really make sense.  In previous versions, having that 'shortcut' there would mean that if the volume wasn't mounted when you clicked on it, it would prompt you to login to the volume.  That seems like a much more reasonable way for it to work!

     

    I have at least two users who have this issue and are aggravated by it.  As a result, they've created a folder on their desktop with alias/shortcuts to those folders in it, and when they disappear from the Finder Favorites Sidebar, they drag it back in from there.  I've also recommended they just put the Alias/Shortcut folder itself on their Finder Favorites Sidebar, and since it's a local folder on the HD, it shouldn't go away.  They can just jump there and copy it back, or go on to where they really wanted to go in the first place. Not a great workaround, but one that seems like it works for now.  It would be nice if this just worked the way it used to, which made much more sense.

  • by Colbster182,

    Colbster182 Colbster182 Oct 8, 2015 10:09 AM in response to ArtherDaily
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    Oct 8, 2015 10:09 AM in response to ArtherDaily

    I'm unfollowing this post as it seems Apple won't fix it. The alias thing seems like a good idea, but a pain. Why doesn't apple just make every folder link in the favourites behave like an alias??

  • by Lionchild,

    Lionchild Lionchild Oct 8, 2015 10:10 AM in response to Colbster182
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    Oct 8, 2015 10:10 AM in response to Colbster182

    Have the users put the Alias/Shortcut folder in the Finder Favorites Sidebar.  Then it's quicker to get to it to either put it back or go where they wanted, instead of hunting it down in their Documents folder, or Desktop, etc...  Not perfect, but better than the sharp stick in the eye we're currently getting.

  • by reckles,

    reckles reckles Oct 21, 2015 1:10 AM in response to NellieNetExtreme
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    Oct 21, 2015 1:10 AM in response to NellieNetExtreme

    Thank you!

  • by StevenPalm,

    StevenPalm StevenPalm Oct 21, 2015 11:30 AM in response to Jon Levinson
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    Oct 21, 2015 11:30 AM in response to Jon Levinson

    I have been using this bit of AppleScript to re-create them.  I have to re-arrange them when done, but it is faster than other methods I tried. I just keep a link to this in my Dock so I can open and run it whenever required, which is far too often.

     

    addToSidebar(POSIX file "/EXT/SOME_STUFF")
    -- duplicate the above line for each path you wish to add
    display dialog "Finished"
    
    on addToSidebar(f)
      tell application "Finder"
      activate
      select f
      open f
      tell application "System Events"
        keystroke "t" using [control down, command down]
      end tell
      close the front window
      end tell
      activate
    end addToSidebar
    

     

    It does require, if I recall, that you have given permisisions to control the computer under "Security & Privacy" in System Preferences, under "Accessibility". You would have to give permission to either "Script Editor.app" if you are running this as a text script, or to the compiled application if you save the script that way.

     

    I hope someone else finds this useful.  But I wish Apple would just FIX IT.  This in no way can be "expected behavior". {sigh}

  • by hirschferkel,

    hirschferkel hirschferkel Oct 27, 2015 2:19 AM in response to Niazll
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    Oct 27, 2015 2:19 AM in response to Niazll

    Hi Niazl i have the exact same problem as you. It only appears with AFP connections to our DSMs (3 Snology NASs), but we do not suffer this behavior with SMB connections. Didn't find a solution for this problem, yet.

     

    http://forum.synology.com/enu/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=95409&e=0

    http://www.synology-forum.de/showthread.html?55740-SMB-Share-unter-Mac-dauerhaft -einbinden/page2

  • by Keith Gardner1,

    Keith Gardner1 Keith Gardner1 Nov 11, 2015 2:03 PM in response to Jon Levinson
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    Nov 11, 2015 2:03 PM in response to Jon Levinson

    I'm not sure if anyone in this thread actually communicated with Apple on the subject, but I did today (via support chat) and we may have identified the problem and solution.

     

    I never had my sidebar favorites disappear before this year, and it's happened three times now. All of the folders that disappear are links to a mounted server volume. In going through various aspects of my system configuration, the Apple staffer suggested adding the external volume(s) to my Login Items (System Preferences / Users & Groups / [select account] / Login Items tab). When I opened it up, I immediately realized that I in fact used to have the server volume there, and now I didn't. I don't recall removing it, but may have done so. This could well be the problem.

     

    I've now added the server volume to my Login Items, and will monitor the situation. If I'm good for the next few months without losing the shortcuts, I'd be inclined to say that this is the solution. I don't know of a way to force the situation to occur, as a test, so I'm just going to wait and see what happens. I'd suggest others having this problem ensure that the volumes they are accessing are included in their Login Items list, and let's compare notes.

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