I found a search on this subject before, and it appears that High Sierra changed the default setting of the hard drive or any external drives to not be selected in Finder Preferences. Is this because Apple is trying to force us to put everything on the iCloud?
Just to add, anything in the Finder Sidebar is an alias. So you can drag any file or folder you want to the Sidebar to keep it there.
Hi catfishkp96,
Not sure why the devices are not automatically shown in the update. It may be to prevent changes to home folder permissions unnecessarily, or for a cleaner Finder window.
If you want to see the devices, do the following:
Heres the article for iCloud Drive FAQ: HT201104 if you have further questions regarding this feature.
Some cool stuff is coming out for iCloud Drive/Desktop&Documents with the release of MacOS Catalina!
Thanks...yeah, sorry I didn't mention that I figured out how to do it...just trying to find out why Apple decided to eliminate it. Seems like the typical approach in a competitive industry is to "force" customers to use what they or make it hard to use other sources/resources to kind of make the "default" benefit the company.
Devices in Finder Sidebar
