Mac locations in finder does not show drives on Big Sur 11.6

Leslie Bartiromo1 wrote:

I think it happened with the latest Big Sur update (to 11.6); in my MBP Finder sidebar locations I can see my iMac (in another room and on the same network.) I used to click on it and see my iMac Macintosh HD and all attached drives. They are no longer visible. I have screen sharing and permissions on at both locations.

Any ideas as to what's wrong and how I can fix this?

Thanks,

Les

You do not make it clear what you are seeing or not seeing....

Locations?

Is it open...? spinning the carrot to see what is listed? Move the mouse to the right side to reveal the carrot.

Verify from

Finder>Preferences>Sidebar>Locations—select Macintosh HD, Hard Disk, External Disk, etc (?)

Get to know the Finder on your Mac

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201732

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

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/finder-mchlp2605/mac

You are in complete control of what to see in your Sidebar.

Drag a folder there to the Favorites area, and it shows.

You want All Files:

Create a smart folder containing All Files, and put it there.

I don't know how many files you have, but in my mac they are in the millions. Most of them I never need to see, or know they exist. That is why I still think that having a window showing All Files is useless.

But you want that, fine. Yes it can be done.

You don't want Recents: go to the Finder preferences and uncheck Recents. I did too.

The new "finder" no longer shows the whole drive, but only "Recents" - this is extremely irritating. How do I get rid of this preference and revert to being able to see the drives, folders and devices that I arranged as my preferred workspace?

I have followed the train above, and set the Finder "Preferences" as I had from the beginning of finding this awful "recents" as inescapable - still no view of my whole files, devices, apps and folders. "Recents", though specifically UNSELECTED reigns at the top of every window... bad move, apple

Apple replaced "All Files" by "Recents" some years ago (maybe when Mojave appeared, I am not sure).

"All files" was completely useless, even more that "Recents" is. You have SO MANY files, why have them all lumped together?

(Still, you CAN reproduce this - just make a "Smart Folder" with an all encompassing search; again, useless, but if that is what you want, go ahead)

As leroydouglas pointed out, you can show your drives and pretty much any other location you want.

To show a specific folder in the Sidebar, just drag it there.

Why? I need more than just "recents" and really, the all files was much more useful.

I have changed the preferences, I have dragged files into the sidebar, and STILL they are pre-empted by the "recents".

This "we know better than you what you want, and you can't get rid of our decision" is not a good answer.

HOW do I get my preferences back? These solutions have not worked. HOW do I get rid of that "recents" preference PERMANENTLY?

Are you able to see the EHDS on the Desktop that you can't see in the Finder sidebar?