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My Finder sidebar won’t show Home, Desktop, Applications, All My Files — even though they are checked in Finder Preferences.

I tried three suggestions I spotted in the forums, but didn’t fix:

1. Disk utility repairs

2. Deleting ‘com.apple.sidebarlists.plist’ (file not in Library)

3. View - show sidebar.

I have MBA, 1.6GHz, 4GB, v10.7.4

Any suggestions?

Posted on Aug 13, 2012 8:11 PM

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Posted on Sep 24, 2012 12:35 PM

Hi Michael,

I had the same problem and solved it a very easy way. Infact I felt pretty silly. Haha hopefully this solves your problem too.

Close all finder windows so when you click the finder icon it opens a new finder window, one with no sidebar. Then go View>Show Toolbar

Then once the toolbar is enabled, the view/hide sidebar toggle becomes activated in that same menu.

Good Luck! Let me know if that fixed it.

How do I restore missing Finder sidebar?

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go View>Show Toolbar ⤴️