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All out of a sudden, the sidebar in "Finder" is gone. The weird thing is that the "Show Sidebar" entry of the View menu is disabled/grayed out, so the sidebar can't be enabled again. Do you have any ideas how to fix this issue? Btw, restarting did not change anything.

Edit: Happens on OSX Yosemite/10.10.3

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  • do you get this on every window? for instance start opening the hard drive on desktop and see if it's still greyed out.
    – neuralstatic
    Commented May 29, 2015 at 21:24
  • Same behavior on every window. It seems like the sidebar is totally gone...
    – SePröbläm
    Commented May 29, 2015 at 21:43

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Carefully move the pointer to the left side of the finder window border till the cursor changes to arrow pointing to the right.

↦

Hold and Drag to the right.

If that did not work you need to restore the finders preferences.

In terminal run 

rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist

and 

rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist

Restart.

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For me, the solution is that I need first (by Apple mis-logic) to hit:

"View / Show Toolbar" (⌥⌘T);

…then "View / Show Sidebar" (⌥⌘S) becomes ungreyed.

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    Still happening in 2020. Sad. But this workaround still works.
    – Oscar
    Commented Nov 9, 2020 at 20:22
  • Works in Monterey
    – gatorback
    Commented Sep 3, 2022 at 15:58
  • Works on Ventura ... doing ⌘⌥T (command + option + T) to show the toolbar was enough to force the sidebar to appear again. YMMV
    – mr.cook
    Commented Aug 6, 2023 at 14:20

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