i seem to have somehow lost all my preset locations or whatever i am supposed to call these locations. so now if i want to save something to the desktop i have to navigate there? not even sure how i would get to dropbox now honestly. any ideas on what happened? or do i just need to create a lot of aliases and drag all the aliases back into the finder bar here? ideas? THANKS
Mac Pro, macOS 10.13
You currently are not logged in the user who owns the Desktop folder. That's what happened. Do you remember your login for that user? Go to Apple menu and Log Out. If it only gives you one user like Guest, you might need to go under the user menu in the upper right hand corner and see if you can login the other user.
Just in case, that you are not signed in as the guest user, and just accidentally set the selector to the "Guest" user, try to set the menu in the toolbar, where it is showing "Guest" to a different user account by clicking the double arrow ^v and step up to "Users".
In the sidebar, the Favorites section can be hidden. If you hover the pointer over the title "Favourites" in the sidebar, you may be seeing a hidden button "Show/Hide", that lets you hide the sections of the Finder sidebar. Click "show", to bring the Favourites and other sections of the sidebar back. For example - I have hidden all parts of the sidebar:
You're welcome, hotwheels22. 😊
THANKS GUYS! boy did i feel like a dope there.
apologies for the weird original image with the negative signs. that appears to have been when i was in fact clicking on the guest folder or something but i was too flustered to redo the screenshot to something that made more sense. i was confooosed!
it was as leonie pointed out the SHOW button which i seem to have clicked to HIDE accidentally.
thats a little like driving a stick shift and you walk out one day and someone turned around your transmission or something!
all good. THANK YOU.
lost all FINDER "preset locations"?
