Why are nearly all the folders in the sidebar, suddenly gone?

For some odd reason, today there are just two Cloud folders and two hard drive folders showing in the toolbar in the Finder! What happened to all the others, that have been there for years??? The folders all still exist, but no longer are they in the sidebar, which is a royal pain, and I'm not sure how to repopulate it.

iMac 27″ 5K, macOS 11.6

Posted on Jan 3, 2022 12:13 PM

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Posted on Jan 3, 2022 12:22 PM

Pass your pointer over the word Favorites in the sidebar and observe that a right-facing > appears. Click that and the Favorites listing will be restored.

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Why are nearly all the folders in the sidebar, suddenly gone?

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