OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Left Sidebar On Finder Not Showing?
Jun 27, 2012
I have an iMac - Mac OS X 10.6.8Â
Out of the blue the sidebar on the left of the finder just disapeared.Â
I searched and foud some fixes like deleting .plist file and clicking the oval button on the top right of finder, and nothing works.Â
I know when I click on the oval it's suppos to appear, but it's not. The only thing that happens is that the top part hides and appears. I just want to get my finder the way it was. I actually have folders there for quick access and now it's gone.Â
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Feb 23, 2012
I am a reasonably experienced iMac user but can anybody tell me please why the (grey) sidebar in Finder has gone missing and tell me how to get it back? I have never seen this happen before.
I am running Snow Leopard on an iMac (intel). Obvious things like preferences/Sidebar checked (all items in there ticked including Devices, Shared, Places, etc).
Info:intel iMac
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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why my Mac can't see or let me use all this free space?Â
I am running Snow Leopard 10.6.8. It is a 13" mid 2009 MacBook Pro 5.5, 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 4Gb 1067 MHz DDR3 if that's of any help.Â
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2009), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Dec 29, 2010
I clicked the little jellybean thing on the top right, and it only makes the menubar appear and disappear, but the sidebar is still gone.i don't have a little dot on the left hand side so i have nothing to drag. i checked my finder preferences and the folders are still checked.but even after all that... still no side bar.
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Feb 11, 2012
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MacBook
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Mar 16, 2012
There are following problems with two PDF Files. When I open the PDF with preview 5.0.3 in main window there is an other chapter as I have mark in the sidebar.There is allway a different of one chapter between mainwindow and sidebar.
This failure are in two PDFs.The PDFs are manuals of DEVONthink, not the help of DEVONthink. There is no problem when I open this PDFs with Acrobat Reader 9.5.0. Sidebar and main windwow the same chapter when I mark it in sidebar.Â
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May 11, 2012
I have several PDF docs with several annotations in them. When I show the sidebar in Preview it lists page, type, date, and author, but does not display the words in the annotations!With a long of annotations that only identify themselves by "Text", it's laborious to find the note one is looking for. (One has to manually step through each one at a time!)
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Apr 5, 2012
Sometimes I simply cannot open a new finder window. If I use Command-N or if I choose New Finder Window in the Finder menu, nothing happens. If I am using Command-N, I can see the File heading in the Finder menu bar highlighting, and then after a few seconds the highlight goes, but no window opens. Also, clicking on my Downloads icon in the dock, the dialog opens showing all the files, but if I then click on Open in Finder, the dialog closes but nothing happens. Now that I am writing this message, it all works again! That's what I mean by 'sometimes'. This issue can last for tens of minutes. Secndly, and this is still a problem, my finder Preferences do not stick. So for instance, I don't want to see an icon for my hard disk on the desktop, so I untick this in Finder preferences. The icon disappears. If I now re-start, then it comes back. The same happens for removing the empty trash warning and all of the other Finder Preference tick boxes.Â
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Apr 18, 2012
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iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.6.1), not sure about operating system
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Nov 15, 2008
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Oct 9, 2010
I have had an app called Total Finder installed, they recently did an update, which caused me to have sidebar problems. I have since deleted this app, because I couldn't work without my sidebar.
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
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Mar 25, 2012
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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MacBook
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Mac Pro 2010 Hexacore 12GB SSD, Mac OS X (10.6.5), Logic 9.1.3
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Have become aware that the Network Folder is not showing up in the Finder Sidebar.
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2010), OS X Mavericks (10.9.2), Old system was Mountain Lion
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Mar 15, 2012
I opened a new Finder window to find out that all the icons in the sidebar are gone, and going to finder --> preferences doesn't help. They're still ticked, but don't show up. I tried unticking them all, closing preferences, then opening preferences and ticking them again. No luck. I tried restarting the computer, no luck. I've heard that dragging the file com.apple.finder.plist onto the desktop and restarting helps, but I can't find it. It's not in Library/Preferences and a search doesn't show it. I can see a veriety of other com.apple.----- files but not the finder one.Â
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), Just upgraded
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