Option to show sidebar in Photos on Mac is greyed out.

Leonie . The pulling of the sides to enlarge is a very helpful tip. Thank you.

You're welcome 🙂

I fixed my Photos by simply making the window larger as PatStewart recommended. But here is a weird thing. I tried your method and I can not find my house icon. I have seen it and used it dozens of times before. I can not find it now.

In the Finder/General preference pane be sure to select your Home folder in this menu:

Also in the Finder/Advanced preference pane be sure the Home folder is checked:

Now you should be able to quickly get to your Home folder from any Finder window.

But here is a weird thing. I tried your method and I can not find my house icon. I have seen it and used it dozens of times before. I can not find it now.

If the house icon for the home folder is not showing in the Finder sidebar, change the Finder preferences.

Bring the Finder forward by clicking somewhere on the empty desktop. Then open "Finder > Preferences". In the preferences panel click the sidebar tab and enable all options you want to show in the sidebar, i.e. the home folder.

Thank You! Easy !

Oh my god thank you!!!!

That worked like a charm. Thank you so much!

just make the size of the windows on photos bit bigger it should pop up by itself ok i just did on mine ok

Once I realized I needed to unhide the library folder (actually follow the directions) this worked great, thanks!

deleting following folder works , ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Photos/

or you could just maximise ;-)

I made the Photos window bigger, and the sidebar reappeared, and the View/Sidebar menu item was no longer dimmed.

Thanks to patstewart2b's post on April 28, 2016.

-Tom

The answer is SO simple! I had this problem for days. I finally asked Apple. Just widen the Photos window and the sidebar reappears.

Thank you, this worked for me.

Thanks, this worked for me!