External drives do not show in finder sidebar

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Hello, I have three external hard drives connected to my Mac mini. Today I went on the computer and they don’t show in the Finder sidebar. They were showing and working fine yesterday.

  • icons are on desktop
  • am able to view drives and its contents
  • drives appear in About this Mac>storage
  • powered off the Mini and checked that all connections are good
  • double checked Finder preferences - external hard drive is on for sidebar
  • disks appear in disk utility

This has never happened before. I Googled my problem and the solutions seem to either be that I have to reformat my disks or do things above my computer ability.

Please help me Mac Obi Wans, you’re my only hope.

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Have you tried dragging the disk icons into the sidebar?
I had an external that I “removed from sidebar” and that was the only way I found to get it back.

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If you can do this your drives do not need to be reformatted.

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@JohnAtl Thank you so much!!! Brilliant!!!

I KNEW posting something on MPU forum would do the trick.

Thank you!!!

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Yes, thank you. I don’t know much at all compared to people on this forum, but I do know that. I know the external drives were good, just not visible! Thank you for the reply!