Desktop Folder in Sidebar Keeps Going AWOL

[fischej (Jeff Fischer)]

It’s actually discussed fairly regularly:

Finder sidebar got reset again

This is the second time this has happened with my MBP M1 Pro in Monterey. All the items I added to the Finder left-hand sidebar vanished overnight. And all my Finder tabs got reset to some default location. So I had to hunt them down and pin them to the sidebar again. Anybody else see this happen? Apple support is completely unhelpful about this. Thanks, doug

Favorites disappeared from Finder sidebar

With a MacBook Pro 2019 16-inch running Monterey 12.2, suddenly in the Finder sidebar almost all of my Favorites have disappeared. Now under Favorites, besides two folders I had originally dragged there long ago, there is only Dropbox, Desktop and my User folder icon. I have tried relaunching Finder and restarting. Any ideas?

Finder sidebar feature gone in Ventura?

I just updated my 16" MacBook Pro 2019 from Monterey to Ventura 13.4.1. Mostly smooth, and I’m back at work. BUT a sad surprise was that one of the features I’ve relied upon for years appears broken. Posting here to see if this is a known fact or do I need to fiddle with some system settings or permissions. The broken feature is the ability to drag a file on top of an app alias in the Finder sidebar (“Favorites”) and have that app open the dropped file. When I try this now, I just get a circle…

Desktop folder keeps disappearing from Finder sidebar

I started to notice this with the upgrade to Sonoma. My usual config has the Desktop folder on my Finder sidebar. Every so often, I will go to save a file there (Zoom, Word, PDF, etc.) and Desktop is no longer on the Sidebar as a location. I add it back in (Finder Settings > Sidebar) and it stays for an indeterminate period of time, and then at some point it’s not there again. Anyone else see this? Any fix anyone has found?