Jon Levinson

Q: why folders disappear from finder sidebar in mavericks?

Why do, for no apparent reason, the folders I have added to the Finder's sidebar just disappear when I open a Finder window?

Posted on Nov 13, 2013 7:53 AM

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  • by putzfetzenORG,

    putzfetzenORG putzfetzenORG Feb 24, 2015 8:49 AM in response to Jon Levinson
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    Feb 24, 2015 8:49 AM in response to Jon Levinson

    1) I confirm this bug on a rMBP Mid 2014 with a freshly installed OS X 10.9.5 where sidebar links to folders residing on external volumes disappear.

     

    2) Very sad to hear that this bug is still unfixed even in OS X 10.10 Yosemite.

     

    3) @NDchemE 's workaround hint to CMD-drag to the sidebar did not help it.

     

    4) I tried other workarounds as well, but none of them was reliably fruitful:

    • Make sure that the Finder has a or no window with one of the linked folders opened, then unmount.
      • —> No reproducable workaround affect.
    • If you have an external storage medium with multiple volumes, try "Eject" or "Eject All"
      • —> No reproducable workaround affect.
    • Use different volume eject methods
      • Methods
        • Eject via side bar
        • Eject via dragging from desktop to Trash
        • Eject via dragging from a Finder window at root level to Trash
        • Eject via selecting volume and issuing eject shortcut (CMD-E)
      • —> No reproducable workaround affect.

     

    Sometimes one of the mentioned workflows caused the links to remain in the sidebar, to only disappear at a later time.

    I could not reliably isolate the bug, meaning I could not clearly determine cause and effect.

  • by PatrickL,

    PatrickL PatrickL Feb 24, 2015 1:23 PM in response to PBinHtown
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    Feb 24, 2015 1:23 PM in response to PBinHtown

    PBinHtown wrote:

     

    Just wanted to add my name to the chorus of folks asking for this to be fixed.

     

    This ^^^

     

    Getting sick of Cmd + K-ing all day and night, and having to learn Automator to automate a task in order to fix what shouldn't have been broken over so many releases in the first place.

  • by jadik,

    jadik jadik Mar 2, 2015 12:44 PM in response to Jon Levinson
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    Mar 2, 2015 12:44 PM in response to Jon Levinson

    Note to Apple: COME ON GUYS!! We are living in a networked, mobile world... Having accessible, persistent links to network shares is part of the mainstream user's reasonable expectations.

     

    Microsoft has had mapped network drives NAILED... for a long, long time.

    OS X has a longstanding major fail in this category, which has me at a loss for why??!?! 

     

    MAC DEVELOPERS: Do y'all use laptops & connect to network shares?? If so, please tell us how you eliminate the chore of reconnecting after every unintended network blip, laptop snooze, or trip to Starbucks, etc... 

  • by Michael29Angelo,

    Michael29Angelo Michael29Angelo Mar 12, 2015 9:36 AM in response to Jon Levinson
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    Mar 12, 2015 9:36 AM in response to Jon Levinson

    The best workaround I've found for this is to browse to the folder on the server and create an alias.  After you create the alias drag it to your sidebar.  They seem to stay in place from what I've found. 

     

    You can delete the alias from the server once you move it to the sidebar.

  • by hodem,

    hodem hodem Mar 19, 2015 11:17 AM in response to Jon Levinson
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    Mar 19, 2015 11:17 AM in response to Jon Levinson

    After trying every workaround and shortcut to this problem, including installing Default Folder app to make navigation easier, it seems like the problem has been resolved with the update to 10.10.2. I just started adding folders to the sidebar again, and after multiple sleeps and restarts, the folders are coming back each time. I would like others to verify this result. This has been frustrating since switching to a new Mac Pro, with all of my work drives being connected via Thunderbolt rather than internally. Each sleep or restart would remove the folders. Now, when I wake or restart, the folder are missing initially when the desktop come back up, but when the drive mounts, the folders are popping back up in the sidebar! Please, confirm my results if you have updated to Yosemite 10.10.2

  • by JoeDu,

    JoeDu JoeDu Mar 25, 2015 8:52 AM in response to hodem
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    Mar 25, 2015 8:52 AM in response to hodem

    I have 10.10.2 and just this morning all of my sidebar favorites from the server have disappeared. And these were aliases that were dragged in, not the actual folders from the server. This on-going headache ****** me off.

  • by HCOEweb,

    HCOEweb HCOEweb Mar 27, 2015 1:53 PM in response to Jon Levinson
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    Mar 27, 2015 1:53 PM in response to Jon Levinson

    I never had this problem with 10.9.x, provided that I made sure SMB drives were connected prior to trying to click on one of my favorites, but after upgrading to 10.10.2 yesterday, they disappear even when no finder window is open prior to connecting to SMB drives.

     

    Oddly, just now I had to restart (due to a complete system freeze, separate issue), and when it came back on, ONE of my 9-10 favorites - the first one, if it matters - remained, but the rest were gone.

     

    I tried creating an alias but the system does not allow me to drag the alias to the favorites.

     

    So...I guess I'm just adding my 2 cents to the list in hopes that it will add up to many dollars and Apple will actually attempt to fix the thing. Grr...

  • by HCOEweb,

    HCOEweb HCOEweb Mar 31, 2015 8:41 AM in response to Jon Levinson
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    Mar 31, 2015 8:41 AM in response to Jon Levinson

    Just as a fun update:

     

    Yesterday morning when I came to work after the weekend, all 13 of my favorites were still there. Today when I got to work, four of my 13 favorites were there.

     

    So to summarize the work days since upgrading to Yosemite:

     

    Day 1: All disappear

    Day 2: All but one disappears

    Day 3: None disappear

    Day 4: All but four disappear

     

    How does this make any sense? Aren't computers supposed to be logical?

     

    For now I have conceded defeat and created a folder on my desktop with 13 aliases in it, and put THAT folder in my favorites in the sidebar, as I do not feel like re-doing it every morning.

  • by eljonco,

    eljonco eljonco Apr 11, 2015 9:12 AM in response to Erick Mikiten
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    Apr 11, 2015 9:12 AM in response to Erick Mikiten

    I can confirm this happening on a 10.7.5 server and 10.10 clients when switching from wired to wireless networks or vice versa, ie. (un)plugging a network cable  :-(

  • by Niazll,

    Niazll Niazll Apr 18, 2015 11:48 AM in response to Jon Levinson
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    Apr 18, 2015 11:48 AM in response to Jon Levinson

    Also have this issue, very annoying..

     

    I've tried with both AFP and SMB shares. I add some network shortcuts to my sidebar and then Finder 'gets confused' whenever I disconnect from these shares.

     

    If I re-connect to server #1 then the shortcuts I made for server #2 randomly change to server #1 shortcuts, really bizarre behavior. Windows 8 seems to be a lot more solid in this regard.

     

    Using a mid 2014 rMBP.

  • by James Teal,

    James Teal James Teal May 1, 2015 8:24 AM in response to Jon Levinson
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    May 1, 2015 8:24 AM in response to Jon Levinson

    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.

  • by Emmers5628,

    Emmers5628 Emmers5628 May 7, 2015 12:04 PM in response to James Teal
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    May 7, 2015 12:04 PM in response to James Teal

    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!

  • by Robin3D,

    Robin3D Robin3D May 10, 2015 11:48 PM in response to Michael29Angelo
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    May 10, 2015 11:48 PM in response to Michael29Angelo

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

  • by TAA IT,

    TAA IT TAA IT May 15, 2015 1:42 AM in response to Jon Levinson
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    May 15, 2015 1:42 AM in response to Jon Levinson

    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…

  • by eljonco,

    eljonco eljonco May 15, 2015 6:59 AM in response to Michael29Angelo
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    May 15, 2015 6:59 AM in response to Michael29Angelo

    @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).

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