my hard disks don't show in the sidebar anymore

Movethe cursor over the DEVICES line in the sidebar. If the word Show appears on the right, click it. Otherwise, from the Finder menu bar, select

Go > Computer

Drag the volume icons into the sidebar under DEVICES.

Top Menu > Finder > Preferences > Sidebar > make sure Hard Drives etc. are ticked.

Pete

Back up all data.

Triple-click the line below to select it:

~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist

Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select

Services ▹ Reveal

from the contextual menu.* A folder should open with an item selected. Move the selected item to the Desktop, leaving the window open. Relaunch the Finder and test. If there's no change, put the item you moved back where it was, overwriting the one that may have been created in its place. Otherwise, delete the item you moved.

*If you don't see the contextual menu item, copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C). In the Finder, select

Go ▹ Go to Folder...

from the menu bar, paste into the box that opens (command-V). You won't see what you pasted because a line break is included. Press return.

This did not work for me. My external disks appear on my desktop but nothing in the sidebar. In fact, none of the items which should appear under devices are there.

You might want to consider starting a new discussion. Since this one is marked solved, less people are likely to look at it.

Try going to Finder/Preferences/Sidebar to make sure the appropriate items are checked.

Your advice - "Movethe cursor over the DEVICES line in the sidebar. If the word Show appears on the right, click it. Otherwise, from the Finder menu bar, select"

So simple...Thanks! Had checked my Finder preferences, Sidebar prefs, restarted...nothing worked. Did what you said - bingo!

My wife had this problem, too. I did all this, and nothing worked. Then... I hovered the mouse pointer over the "Favorites" label in the sidebar and an item appeared that said "show"... I clicked on that and suddenly all of the folders and disks showed up. Try hovering your mouse over the "Favorites" label in the sidebar, click on "Show" and see if that doesn't work.

I am having the same problem. I finally got to the sidebar list but oh my gosh! What a lot of typing. What am I supposed to do with that??? I can't get my devices to show up on the sidebar and I do have them checked in the preferences. When I hover over the 'favorites' at the top of the sidebar it will allow me to hide or show but this is all I get.

no devices. Can you pls walk me through step by step on how to fix this?

Thank you so much,

Horsnaround

Thank you, such a simple fix. This was driving me crazy. Your suggestion worked perfectly!