why folders disappear from finder sidebar in mavericks?

I work in an enterprise environment. This happened to me for the first time today, after years of using the same sidebar shortcuts, through several upgrades. Don't know why it decided on today, but I think it was triggered by a server connection lost in an unusual manner. What that manner was... I am investigating.

i am having the same trouble-- but am unable to find a workaround to get my SMB folder back into the favorites. Hopeful that someone can figure this out!

Creating an alias helped me in Mavericks, by putting the alias(es) in a folder (originally on my desktop) in the sidebar.

Here another frustrated user to add to the list - we get the feeling nobody at Apple really cares about these type of problems anymore (there are more these days than ever before), especially frustrating as this used to work just fine…

@Michael29Angelo: Aliases don't let them selves be dragged into the side bar as far as we found.We can drag them into a folder in the sidebar (moving the alias) but we can't place the alias on a line between two other items (the blue ring with horizontal line does not appear).

I've been coming across this issue for the last couple of months, running a Mac OSX 10.8 server and some users (not all) experiencing loss of finder aliases, i've been following forums and pulling my hair out.

Today I came across an issue with another client, I did a clean rebuild of Yosemite and reconnected to server via Finder. This user was still having permission issues on Photoshop after a clean rebuild.. The server permissions to photoshop file were correct, another user in the company with same permissions having no issue writing to file.

We found that Finder on the newly rebuild yosemite machine is connecting to the Mac server using SMB: automatically, this was confirmed after doing a "get info" on a file on the server giving us the full path of the file showing smb://192.168.1.x

My understanding is that finder should connect automatically using AFP? So after a clean rebuild why is finder connecting as SMB automatically? Nothing wrong with AFP on the server and the other user who had no issues saving is connecting automatically via AFP on her finder.

I had to force this newly rebuilt machine to connect via AFP so then my thought is are disappearing aliases caused by finder connecting to the server between AFP and SMB randomly? If a user is creating an alias one day connected via SMB to a folder then another day Finder connects as AFP could that be the cause for the alias to disappear?

Hi all

I too have issues with items disappearing from the sidebar. In my case, having bruised my head off the monitor for a few days trying to resolve the issue I'm resorting to you folk to see if anyone has a) the same issue and b) if there is a remedy.

My "SHARED" item has disappeared. I don't have a clue how to reinstate it. Normally I'd simply drag stuff I'm working on to the sidebar for quick, easy access. How does one do that with SHARED?

I'm on a LAN with 3 Macs connected. The other 2 show my machine but my machine shows nothing. Every time I want to connect to one of the other machines I have to go the COMMAND+K route or via the GO menu item in FINDER. Pain in the a··

Any ideas anyone? Help gratefully received.

Personally I think YOSEMITE is the worst release of OSX I've ever installed and I've been on Macs since 8,6

Running:

OSX 10.10.3 on a Mac Mini

2,3Ghz i5 core

4Gb memory

I Have been having similar problems which I can sometimes remedy by force relaunching Finder. The items that are disappearing for me are my other Mac and drives attached to my Airport Extreme. I am going to try a clean install of Yosemite to see if that will fix Finder. I will post if it works.

Since installing Yosemite I have also had problems with tremendous kernal task CPU usage while using Handbrake. The machine does not crash but comes to a standstill then "catches up" and completes commands amd mouse clicks with no problem but these slowdowns can last close to a minute. That makes the machine pretty useless until I am done with Handbrake.

Since Mavericks is SMB (SMB2) the default protocol for finder to use. So your machine is healthy.

I was having the same problem, and am a little embarrassed to say how simple the problem was for me.

To fix the issue, I had to hit "Show" when moving the cursor over "Favorites", "Shared", and "Devices" - and then it showed the items again.

It's still a mystery how all the items were gone, as if I'd hit "Hide" on them. I haven't restarted my machine, so if I have any troubles with this issue after that, I'll post a reply to this posting.

I Wish that was the answer for me but I already know about the hide and show trick. I belielve Finder is not dealing properly with network devices. Finder is extremely unstable since my Yosemite upgrade. Forcing Finder and sometimes my Airport Extreme to restart seems to be the only way to get everything to reappear. I am hoping it is a software conflict and that Apple receives enough crash logs to fix it.

Yeah this happens to me too. I think it's because some links are from a hard drive that I unplug from at work, so when I get home they don't want to have favourites on drives that aren't connected. What's stupid is that I'll plug back in at work the next day and they're gone. Pretty f'n stupid, Apple. Why don't you learn how people actually use your products and stop messing with our process?

Cleaning the DS_Store and ._* hidden files from my network drives fixed the problem of having files disappear randomly in finder that some people mentioned here. However, I would need more people to test it to see if it was just a coincidence.

FWIW, seems to be still broken in El Capitan based on reports, so Apple clearly doesn't care about people actually USE Their ocmputers, they have long since given up on us and tailor only to people who want to LOOK AT THEM. That is why the obsession over style and thinness have overcome making computers that actually work.

I am also having the same problem with Yosemite.

I am connecting with AFP. It's easy enough to save it in command+k so it always comes up instead of SMB.

I have quite a few Macs and we've been using 10.8.5 (Mountain Lion) and none has ever lost favorites. It doesn't matter if they're on the network or not. I had upgraded to Mavericks and had nothing but problems and reverted back. My MBA I upgraded to Yosemite and haven't really had any serious issues other than AFP/SMB and that was resolved with saving my code to ensure I always connect to AFP.

With the good results and 10.10.4 finally being released I decided to upgrade once again from ML to Yosemite. After day one I lose my favorites. I put them back on and on day 2 it did the same thing. Why?

I think I'll be using Time Machine to go back again. This should not be an issue. I need the favorites and this is not optional.