Hello! I accidentally deleted the document folder in the Finder sidebar as i was trying to drag it to my dock to create a shortcut... any ideas?

Hi, this didn't work for me either :/ but after a long time a figured out another way.

You can click on Finder, click "Search" and type out "Documents" (and click search for "This Mac"). Then you'll need to scroll through everything until you find your document folder (if there are many folders called "Document" make sure to find the one with a page drawn on it). Then you simply drag that folder to the sidebar!

Hope this helps 🙂

Hey - I don't see any preferences option within the Finder menu. All I did was drag the documents folder to the desktop hoping to create a shortcut and it completely deleted the folder from the menu. This is a terrible functionality. Does anyone know how to get this back into the Finder side bar?

Finder -> Preferences -> Sidebar

Re-checkmark the Documents item.

Regards.

Message was edited by: varjak paw

I'm going to put this in a clear way.

1. Open Finder.

2. On the top, hover over "Finder" and click "Preferences", or press "cmd+,".

3. Press "sidebar" on the tabs.

4. Check the documents.

You haven't - you've only deleted its alias in the Sidebar. Click your Home folder icon and you will see Documents there. Just drag it both to the Sidebar and the Dock, to create alias icons in those locations. (I'm not sure why everyone is making it seem much more complicated than it is?)

Hi, just search in the "search" box for "documents" and when you find the folder with different style drag it to your left dock and everything will be fine, works with any other type of special folders as well. Hope it will help somebody else 🙂

what if the document folder is actually deleted to not have it checkboxed in the preferences 😉 can't we also stop with the multiple device log in checks for TRUSTED devices- we don't need all the security-

yes I actually don't know how my document folder got deleted- and know I can copy and paste the icon to match the original folder- but figured I'd challenge more answer than the versions provided

Worked. Thank you!

YES thank you.

THANK YOU!!!! :O) So glad to see I was not the only one to do this!! 'o)

yep - exactly what I needed - many thanks

Thanks varjak paw!! I did the same thing and your reply Mariesxm was perfect. Much appreciated plus it saved me a trip to the genius bar!!

Thanks for the help! Took me a while to find the preferences option, but I got there eventually.

Thank you Varjak Paw for your reply. What a relief this worked for me. Thank you