How to Show Network Drives In Finder Sidebar?

Here's what fixed mine:

I had set the Finder's Preferences for the sidebar to show "Connected Servers" thinking that would allow me to drag the shared folder to the sidebar but that actually was preventing me from doing it. I unchecked that box(Sidebar Preferences/Connected Servers) and then dragged the shared folder to the side bar in the "Devices" area and it stayed. This is on a Mountain Lion machine.

I hope this is helpful.

I may not have explained it well. The point is that you have to UNCHECK the "Connected Servers" in the Finder->Preferences->Sidebar. Otherwise when you drag a network drive to the sidebar it will only show the server not the share but with this unchecked you can drag the network drive to the "Devices" section and it should stay there. I've done this on both Lion and Mountain Lion machines and it worked just fine. Good Luck.

Yeah I noticed your post just after I sent my second one. I apparently was typing mine while you posted your original reply. No big deal. I'd been having that problem for a while and just thought of that solution when reading your original post and since I was at work was able to try it on a couple of machines real quick. Anyway maybe they'll fix it in future updates.

I don't think it's really accurate to call this a quality control issue. This isn't a bug or defect in anyway. Poor design decision, yes.. I can here looking for the same thing, but you can't say apple has poor quality control and that ML is worse than other versions of OS X becuase they removed a feature you want. Submit feedback over an over an hopefully they will add it back in.

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I upgraded to Mavericks and my Servers dissapeared from the Shared Folder. I used the idea in this e-mail trail to remove "Connected Servers" from the preferences tab in Finder and all the Shared Servers appeared in the side bar.

Thanks

Interestingly, in my experience, using the method described above of unchecking the "Show Connected Servers" box in the Finder Preferences makes no difference in what I can put in the sidebar. I was able to move a sub-folder of a shared disk to the Favorites section of the Finder Sidebar, but nothing else. (i.e. I could not add the shard disk itself to the sidebar – either to the devices, favorites, or any other section, and I could only add a subfolder of the shared disk to the favorites section – not to the devices section or any other section). This was the same whether I had "Show Connected Servers" checked or not.

I'm running OS X Mavericks, and the setup I have is with a previous generation Time Capsule (i.e. the short, square kind that you could buy before the most recent taller variety came out last year), with a LaCie 3 TB USB 3.0 external drive plugged into the USB port of the Time Capsule. I'm then accessing this network drive over WiFi. The differences in what I'm seeing may be due to some change they made in the way Mavericks handles these setups.

I could also just be misunderstanding what you're saying, but I thought I'd add this in case anyone else gets similar results so that they'd know they're not alone. Let me know if I'm missing something here.

This isn't working for me, so I'm wondering if there's something else I need to do.

My server, a Synology NAS, shows up nicely and persistently in the SHARED list. When I click on it, I see all its shared folders, including DOCS, the one I want to always get to quickly. I then try to drag DOCS to the sidebar. That doesn't work, either with FAVORITES, DEVICES, or SHARED. It just either slides back, or highlights an existing entry as if I'm trying to move the folder there.

I've tried this with the Preferences item about showing on the desktop both checked and unchecked. No joy either way.

Running Mavericks 10.9.1 on a Mac Mini.

Any thoughts on why this works for you guys and not for me?

Possible explanation here. The summary is Finder needs to be open before you connect to the server in order to show the network drive in the sidebar. These guys provide an applescript that takes care of that.

I am on OS X 10.10.5, and I had this problem as well. It ends up that there are now 4 sections in the sidebar: Favorites, Devices, Shared, and Tags. If you hover over Shared with your pointer, "Show" should appear beside Shared, and if you click that, the drives should show up. Notice that you can hover over these category names and then "Hide" them as well. I don't know if I accidentally hid them at some point, or if the default changed during a software update. Apple Support helped me resolve this.

how can i get my share file on my finder back there ?

You might want to consider starting a new discussion. Since this one is a couple of years old, less people are likely to look at it. A new post would be much more visible. You can link to this one.

Try Finder/Preferences/Sidebar and check everything under Shared.