SD Card not showing up in Finder Sidebar (other removable drives do) - Big Sur

Same problem, i work in media transfer so its beyond frustrating. 2019 mbpro.

What I do now to see mounted cards via finder is have the mac's hardrive in locations on finder and they are all nested in there.

Still cards show up in shotput pro with as blank names.

I too have the problem. Have a 2016 Subaru map microSD card formatted MS-DOS FAT32 mounted on /Volumes/Untitled\ 1. Its not the kind of thing one might casually rename for fear of Apple files confusing the Subaru navigation system for which I am already lacking respect.

My issue with Big Sur is how this device appears on my desktop but not in a Finder window sidebar. After decades of Mac use my muscles are trained to look for devices in the sidebar to eject. That is really my only interest, to properly eject.

Yes, Apple, please fix this to go with the $2200 Mac Mini I just bought and loaded with Big Sur. I'm a professional and I am having to go back and forth between two different computers to read the photos I'm downloading from jobs.

In my case the microSD card contains navigation map for my Subaru. The card is keyed to the vehicle and the map it contains. A special app is required to update the map, can't just copy files to the SD, and can't use a replacement SD from Walmart. I dare not reformat or even rename for fear of having to purchase a $150 replacement.

I posted relating to this issue a few weeks ago.

Just now, I popped in a couple of SD cards from something I just shot and miraculously they both show up in the sidebar!

This is the first time this has happened. I have not updated anything recently other than Pages, Numbers, and Keynote three days ago.

They didn't show up when I downloaded a couple of cards from an assignment yesterday, either.

Interesting...

Same issue, would love to know if anyone has fixed this problem. I insert SD cards formatted on the Sony camera's and they don't appear in the finder. I have to go into Disk Utility to see them and access them there. Which I find a little stressful as I don't like to leave disk utility open.

FOR ALL THAT WANT THE ANSWER... This is BIG SUR and not an error. Don't even bother with said workarounds or other suggestions. This is 100% Apple messing with Finder again.

This is beyond ridiculous! Come on Apple. First, you handicap Finder's preview area, now this. Please fix it. The creatives in the world that use Finder for more than marking up images and adding pretty colors to files are upset with your constant tinkering. Maybe if we "tag" the SD card, give it a color code, write sweet nothings for a label, we will be able to find it again. Really???

This is what I suspected too. I have been using Macs professionally for over 20 years and never thought I would say this but I think Mac OS and other apps, like mail are going backwards now.

I naively called AppleCare support about this finder issue and they claimed to be concerned and looking into it. What’s the line again. “I can see why you would be frustrated with that and I would like to help you fix it. Of course, after wasting a hour of my time over two calls, the trail went cold.

Not good enough!

Mine has been doing the same thing and as I work from SD cards 99% of the time its really annoying me to the point where I'm about to return my new m1 pro and just switch back to my brick 2013 MPB which is actually running faster than this POS in almost every program including Photoshop, Lightroom, and Disk Utility.

The problem I am having is that this method doesn't work from the import dialog screen of Final Cut Pro X (an Apple pro app). This is where I usually download the contents of my SD cards, as you would expect. This PROBLEM is not good for productivity.

I actually have a SATA hard drive in a dock connected via USB 3, Shows in sidebar as it should in Catalina, when i boot into Big Sur (same Mac) it doesn't show.

I can't rename this Hard Drive like you guys unfortunately as it has certain music sample libraries on it that rely on the exact same path under both OS'

So if i change that the path will break and the Application won't find the library, so i'm kinda stuck here.

tried your suggestion did not work. card only appears in finder window if named within MacOS. If formatted within camera, the name is erased and the card will then no longer appear in finder unless renamed again.

That's fine except if you have 30 SD cards.

I have the same issue with Big Sur: my external drives show up on the desktop, but not in the Finder sidebar. It's really annoying!