why folders disappear from finder sidebar in mavericks?

Have the users put the Alias/Shortcut folder in the Finder Favorites Sidebar. Then it's quicker to get to it to either put it back or go where they wanted, instead of hunting it down in their Documents folder, or Desktop, etc... Not perfect, but better than the sharp stick in the eye we're currently getting.

Thank you!

I have been using this bit of AppleScript to re-create them. I have to re-arrange them when done, but it is faster than other methods I tried. I just keep a link to this in my Dock so I can open and run it whenever required, which is far too often.

addToSidebar(POSIX file "/EXT/SOME_STUFF") -- duplicate the above line for each path you wish to add display dialog "Finished" on addToSidebar(f) tell application "Finder" activate select f open f tell application "System Events" keystroke "t" using [control down, command down] end tell close the front window end tell activate end addToSidebar

It does require, if I recall, that you have given permisisions to control the computer under "Security & Privacy" in System Preferences, under "Accessibility". You would have to give permission to either "Script Editor.app" if you are running this as a text script, or to the compiled application if you save the script that way.

I hope someone else finds this useful. But I wish Apple would just FIX IT. This in no way can be "expected behavior". {sigh}

Hi Niazl i have the exact same problem as you. It only appears with AFP connections to our DSMs (3 Snology NASs), but we do not suffer this behavior with SMB connections. Didn't find a solution for this problem, yet.

http://forum.synology.com/enu/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=95409&e=0

http://www.synology-forum.de/showthread.html?55740-SMB-Share-unter-Mac-dauerhaft -einbinden/page2

I'm not sure if anyone in this thread actually communicated with Apple on the subject, but I did today (via support chat) and we may have identified the problem and solution.

I never had my sidebar favorites disappear before this year, and it's happened three times now. All of the folders that disappear are links to a mounted server volume. In going through various aspects of my system configuration, the Apple staffer suggested adding the external volume(s) to my Login Items (System Preferences / Users & Groups / [select account] / Login Items tab). When I opened it up, I immediately realized that I in fact used to have the server volume there, and now I didn't. I don't recall removing it, but may have done so. This could well be the problem.

I've now added the server volume to my Login Items, and will monitor the situation. If I'm good for the next few months without losing the shortcuts, I'd be inclined to say that this is the solution. I don't know of a way to force the situation to occur, as a test, so I'm just going to wait and see what happens. I'd suggest others having this problem ensure that the volumes they are accessing are included in their Login Items list, and let's compare notes.

I've never had to do that before, but I do know what you are talking about and have also done that. If I have aliases on the desktop and I try to copy to it right after boot up it still won't copy until I open the folder alias even with it in the user's login items. This was never a problem in Mountain Lion. The alias' worked even if it hadn't logged in yet. It would just do it. I wonder if it has to do with the switch over to SMB as default instead of AFP.

The problem with this solution (if it really is a solution) is that many computers are portable and log into different networks that are not the same and it won't work if the share is not available to the network, and then remove from the sidebar. Unfortunately they don't return when on the network where the share is located. Again, this wasn't an issue in Mountain Lion OS of Apple.

Hopefully this will be resolved as more and more of us become mobile between more networks.

If you read through the thread, it happens not only to server volume shares but even to folders on local USB drives, and in my case the USB drive never is physically disconnected. Very frustrating.

Yes, for me, too. ALL of my sidebar favorite folders disappeared at once. Restarting the finder did nothing. And, now i'm afraid that since i tried to 'test' the problem by dragging a folder into the column—to see if i could—i've ruined my chance of getting them all back with a restart....

Too many finder-related bugs for me, in El Capitan and previously in Yosemite. Windows would just stop working. Windows automatically resize themselves. All of a sudden, i won't be able to move a file....

Oh, and.... It seems like the stuff that was in those folders is no longer searchable. It's like the contents/data have just disappeared.

the sidebar bug is very frustrating. i have found a workaround. it's messy but seems to work.

- make a folder on your local hard drive. i called mine "network shares" or something.

- place aliases of the network folders you want to to use in this folder.

- drag the aliases to the favorites in your sidebar

the idea is that the favorites will keep the 'file' in there but the file is actually an alias. just don't trash your network shares folder.

yes, it is a clumsy workaround, but i hope it helps.

I'm on El Crapitan. I've been an Apple "fanboy" for a long time, but I am honestly ready to jump ship. What are they doing? Apple used to be so reliable, easy to use, and FUN to use. Now it seems like non stop bugs and stupid changes just for the sake of changing something.

I have this issue with the sideabar among other things. Server keeps dropping, spotlight doesn't work, searching within finder windows doesn't work.

They are really losing their way.

You've just saved me a load of hassle. That has been driving me mad for weeks.

Right, and inherent in what you are saying is this: if you make sure you connect to the server upon login, the theory is that you won't have a problem with disappearing folders. I've added my external server to my Login Items list, and we shall see!

Actually using the start up items may only work if you are connected to one NAS. If you are connected to different NAS this will not work either.

So the clue is, you have to be connected to the volumes BEFORE Finder starts. To ensure this i wrote a small skript which you can change to your efforts and store as a program in applications folder. After you eddited it in Apples Script Editor, run this generated program on startup in the startup items list (maybe at the very beginning) and all links should work fine.

All you have to do is to replace your volume pathes with the ones in the script.

First part will close Finder to ensure no links get lost when connecting to the different volumes

If some volumes should not be disconnected use exceptionsList

tell application "Finder" to close every window #Close Finder to not loose links

set exceptionsList to {""} #Volumes which should not get disconnected, write as following {"VolumeX","VolumeY",...}

tell application "Finder"

set diskList to the disks

repeat with mountedDisk in diskList #Make sure all Volumes are disconnected

if name of mountedDisk is not in exceptionsList then

eject mountedDisk

end if

end repeat

end tell

set netStatus to (do shell script ("ping -c1 192.168.yyy.xxx > /dev/null; echo $?")) #check online status of Volume1 (IP)

set netStatus2 to (do shell script ("ping -c1 192.168.yyy.xxx > /dev/null; echo $?")) #check online status of Volume2 (IP) and so on...

set Volumes1 to {"Mountpoint1", "Mountpoint2"} #Mount these MountPoints of the volumes, write as following {"MountpointNameX","MountpointNameY",...} and replace names with your Mountpoints

set Volumes2 to {Mountpoint1", "Mountpoint2"}

if netStatus is "0" and netStatus is netStatus2 then

repeat with vol in Volumes1

mount volume "smb://Volume1/" & vol #set root Volume1 e.g. smb://volume1.local and mount all Mountpoints of Volume1

end repeat

repeat with vol in Volumes2

mount volume "afp://Volume2/" & vol #set root Volume2 and mount all Mountpoints of Volume2

end repeat

set Volumes_folder to POSIX file "/Volumes/"

tell application "Finder"

(open folder "Desktop" of home) # or use this folder, if you want to see all mounted Volumes but insert line without brakets: open Volumes_folder

end tell

else #dialogue if something went wrong

display dialog "Sorry Volumes could not be activated" & return & return & ¬

"NAS seems not to be running" buttons {"Ok"} default button 1 giving up after 10 ¬

with icon caution

end if

Hope i wrote no error in these lines.

LOL, I tried submitting a bug report at this link, and even the bug reporting link seems to not be working. I kept entering my login info (correctly; I double checked using the app store login process) and it kept kicking me back to the login screen.

Apple has issues, man...