External hard drive missing from finder, only showing on Desktop! Mac Book Pro 2019 Catalina

tinkerbell8119 wrote:

Hello,

I have a very frustrating problem which is costing lots of time to my work flow. Working on Mac Pro Catalina system.

I always use the short cut for my external hard drives from the finder window and it is not showing lately. It is on the desktop but this is not any good for transfers or even Lightroom imports, it is not showing on these pop up windows. I have had this problem for months and pulling my hair out only finding the same answers, but I have done them already and they do not apply.

My disk is showing as mounted in DisK Utility and I also ran the first aid it was fine.

I have also checked the preferences in finder and ex.hard drive box is ticked?!?

Really confused. If anyone could help that would be amazing because I am currently having to drag GB's of photos to edit and transfer from my hard drive to desktop and my laptop is brand new but only has so much space!!

Finder>Preferences>Sidebar>Locations>External Disk

If no luck try relaunching the Finder.

>Force quit>Finder> Relaunch

if still no luck it could be a corrupt plist

Could be corrupt plist, delete the com.apple.finder.plist

Found here Finder>Go>Go to Folder

copy and paste:

~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist

delete the com.apple.finder.plist

Relaunch your Finder from the >Finder>Force Quit>Finder>Relaunch

or reboot

See and organize your files in the Finder on Mac - Apple ...

It is not entirely clear but I think you mean that the drive is not appearing in a Finder window Sidebar. If I misunderstood, please clarify.

Move your cursor over the area in the Sidebar where drives should appear. The word “Show” will er... show. Click it. That’s all there is to it.

Show us a screenshot of your Finder> Preferences> Sidebar please.

And show us a screenshot of a Finder window with the the Sidebar.

Are you saying that it shows up on the Desktop, but not in Go > Computer (cmd-shift-c)?

Please post screenshots, as Eau Rouge requested - particularly, what do you see under "Locations" in a Finder window sidebar?