How to get external hard drive to stay in Finder sidebar

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How to get external hard drive to stay in Finder sidebar

I can drag my external hard drive icon onto the sidebar of my Finder window as a shortcut (just like the Applications, Documents, Macintosh HD, and various other system folders, etc.)...but as soon as I eject the drive or restart the Finder sidebar removes this shortcut/icon.

This is a new behavior. This drive used to stay there through ejections and restarts ... I had it like this for many months. I've dragged the icon from the Finder back onto the window and it stays there while I'm working, but then when I eject the drive or restart the computer, it disappears again.

Any idea how to make this stick forever (again)?

Thanks!

Posted on Aug 28, 2020 4:04 PM

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Aug 28, 2020 4:57 PM in response to BDAqua

It didn't have the checkmark next to it, it had the minus sign... so I changed to checkmark.

That added the "Recents" and "Creative Cloud Files" (from Adobe Creative Cloud) and I removed both of those by dragging off the sidebar in a finder window. That changed the checkmark back to a minus sign. I am hoping that solved it for my external drive I'm wanting to keep on the sidebar for good, and also keep the Creative Cloud Files off the side bar. We'll see!

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