why folders disappear from finder sidebar in mavericks?

Thanks, I will give it a go!

Thanks. I didn't know you could add folders to the toolbar like this, so it seems like an interesting alternative to having them in the sidebar. Now, I'll just wait to see if they disappear next time the shared drive is disconnected or not..!

Argh, just realised that the Finder toolbar doesn't appear in the document Open/Save dialogue within apps like the sidebar does, this is where I most need the direct access, so back to square-one. Ho-hum, thanks anyhow.

I think the idea is that you would create the folder on the desktop.

I can even begin to explain how frustrating Yosemite is. This sidebar deletion is just one of the many issues I have with how bad their OS has gotten. Apple just doesn't care about it either. Something works in previous version fine, (ie: Spotlight, finder, sidebar shortcuts,) and then when they "upgrade" they destroy the usefulness of these things and no solutions are given. No help form apple, and i have spoken with techs who say to submit a feedback report, that doesn't do a **** thing. )

Anyway if i don't say something nice to solve the problem, apple has been deleting my responses, so here you go apple. - you don;t "fix" things, but spend time deleting comments that don't help in YOUR eyes. (whoever is moderating, maybe pass the issues along to someone who can fix them???)

So the only thing i got to work is to put the folder in the dock for the server. Nevermind it puts a question mark where the icon should be when it is disconnected, (so you have no visible clue except it is a placemark for something) but it keeps something there then connects when you click on it. I think I can also put a location in the top finder bar, but i'm experimenting at this point with that.

I really dislike all these new "upgrades" apple has done, which only makes things 3 or 4 times harder to do simple things. I'm fully invested in apple, so not much i can do about it, except complain repeatedly until they fix it.

Start with fixing Spotlight, finder, sidebar shortcuts, get rid of expose and multiple desktops that I never use.

I find it really frustrating too, since upgrading from 10.6.8 to 10.10.5. I've left feedback here on the recommendation of someone at Apple Developer:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

I will leave feedback there as well. I am beyond frustrated that the OS keeps looking more and more like Windows stuff. I could never find anything in windows search as well as losing the sidebar stuff, (that i put there so i could find it). Now the newest OS is such a bad, horrible, terrible, frustrating, P.O.S. that apple has ever put out in an OS.

I did a search for .skp on my machine over the weekend to look for a file that, for some reason, wasn't in the folder I saved it in for YEARS. My computer said I didn;t have any .skp files? - I literally have hundreds of them, so I looked in the "all my files" link on the sidebar and nothing. I had to open individual random folders and I finally found it. Did a search again and still not showing in the search???? I've already done the re-=indexing, and a few other things, but the most recent version is garbage. The last time the OS worked was snow leapord. I loved that OS and used it as long as I possible coould, but creative cloud doesn't work with it, so I had to upgrade. To have a new and "improved" OS go sa far backwards that I can't even use it, is super frustrating.

I will complain in every place i can until it get fixed, or I use a third party work around.

It is unbelievable this has not been fixed. I really thought my new installation was already broken. But it seems no...

Please Apple fix this important issue. I'm managing 12 users/computers around me, my colleagues are driving crazy... :-(

Apple doesn't care about fixing anything. They just make pretty hardware with crappy software that only works properly half the time, then they charge the poor, deluded fools twice as much as it's worth.

Wow, human error after all. Thanks for this!

I called the Apple Support and they confirmed this is expected behaviour in 10.10.5 as you are not connected to the server. Suggested that third party apps might be able to help me. Someone obviously didn't take the thought step and say well expected behaviour would be also to put them back once you reconnect ! that would be genius.

Just wanted to mention that this just started happening to me in the last month or so. No upgrade in operating system. However, I have updated my Adobe Suite to the "cloud" version....probably has nothing to do with this.

For me, it is not happening to shared server folders (as I am not on a server), but it is happening to my Dropbox folders (which are sort of a type of shared folder, I realize). I've had these shortcuts on this MacBook Pro for at least 3 years with no issue. Now all of a sudden they are disappearing (but not all at once. One folder will disappear one day and then a different one will disappear a week later...folder whac-a-mole)! I have not disconnected my computer either (as I work from home).

What I have done on the computer is to make my own solution that I read on the forums here. Make a folder under your user called "alias" or something that you like. Then add that to the sidebar. After that put aliases of the folders/drives that you want in there. Then when you disconnect from the network, the alias' will still be in there ready for when you are going to reconnect.

Wow. "Working as intended," seems to be the answer you're getting from Apple. That doesn't really make sense. In previous versions, having that 'shortcut' there would mean that if the volume wasn't mounted when you clicked on it, it would prompt you to login to the volume. That seems like a much more reasonable way for it to work!

I have at least two users who have this issue and are aggravated by it. As a result, they've created a folder on their desktop with alias/shortcuts to those folders in it, and when they disappear from the Finder Favorites Sidebar, they drag it back in from there. I've also recommended they just put the Alias/Shortcut folder itself on their Finder Favorites Sidebar, and since it's a local folder on the HD, it shouldn't go away. They can just jump there and copy it back, or go on to where they really wanted to go in the first place. Not a great workaround, but one that seems like it works for now. It would be nice if this just worked the way it used to, which made much more sense.

I'm unfollowing this post as it seems Apple won't fix it. The alias thing seems like a good idea, but a pain. Why doesn't apple just make every folder link in the favourites behave like an alias??