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One hint, you don’t have to restart after throwing away the plist, you just need to relaunch the fFnder. Go to the Apple then pull down to Force-Quit, click on Finder, and it will say relaunch. So how does one get to ~/Library/Preferences then? I don’t have a finder sidebar to work with. Only documents are showing up.
The Finder sidebar preferences are stored in two locations: The order of the Finder sidebar’s sections is stored in the com.apple.finder.plist, under the SidebarZoneOrder pre-Mavericks and SidebarZoneOrder1 post-Mavericks.
What are the tags in the finder sidebar?
The sections are favorites, devices, shared and media_browser. With Mavericks, the Finder tags were introduced which added another section to the Finder sidebar. Therefore, SidebarZoneOrder1 is used instead which, along with the contents of SidebarZoneOrder, also introduces the tags section.
Where do I Find my Favourites in Finder?
Finder in OS X allows you to place favourite locations (volumes and folders) in the sidebar of every Finder window and other Finder dialog or sheet (such as the Finder sidebar shown in a Save or Open sheet). This isn’t a folder in Finder, but rather the Finder sidebar preferences simply stores a pointer to […]
Why are my hard disks not showing up in my finder?
The Finder sidebar is a convenient location to access frequently used items such as hard drives, various folders in your home directory, network shares, and any custom items you drag there. If you use the sidebar for accessing hard disks, then there may be times when certain hard disks do not show up here, while others do.
To start the conversation again, simply ask a new question. The Sidebar isn’t working. It says Favorites (Nothing being shown) and Devices (Everything shows up). I can go into the prefs and hide and show the devices and it updates as I toggle what to show.
Why are my hard disks not showing up on my sidebar?
If you use the sidebar for accessing hard disks, then there may be times when certain hard disks do not show up here, while others do. The likely reason for this occurring is if you have removed that specific hard drive from the sidebar.