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Favorites missing in Open/Save Dialogs
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ibook_steve
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Apr 6, 2016, 04:06 PM
 
Has anybody noticed this recently? In El Capitan, my Favorites are listed on the left in Finder windows, but they are missing in dialogs. Here's Open from Chrome and my Favorites in the Finder. Any ideas?

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Apr 9, 2016, 07:07 AM
 
Not running El Cap, but have you checked that it isn't just related to the size of the window - that it auto-hides things in that list if the window gets too small?
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Apr 11, 2016, 11:21 PM
 
No. In the Finder, you can scroll the list of favorites if there are too many. They don't disappear. Resizing the open/save dialog does nothing.

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Apr 26, 2016, 06:06 PM
 
Originally Posted by ibook_steve View Post
Has anybody noticed this recently? In El Capitan, my Favorites are listed on the left in Finder windows, but they are missing in dialogs. Here's Open from Chrome and my Favorites in the Finder. Any ideas?
JUST happened to me.
Found this article-deleting the com.apple.finder.plist file and rebooting (bottom of the article), did the trick for me. And while YMMV, I didn't even "lose" my favorites (I took a screenshot just in case).

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