All items in my sidebar have vanished, except under "Devices."

All items in my sidebar have vanished, except those under "Devices." I have all sidebar items checked in preferences. It is maddening. Please help.

I can't remember if this works in 10.6.8, but hover the mouse on the top right side of the Sidebar across from Favorites and see if it reveals "Show". If so click Show
It works that way in ML

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Help! - All icons on desktop & sidebar have disappeared!

I've been sorting out some files & folders, renaming stuff, that kind of thing. But, for no apparent reason, suddenly all the icons in the folder I was looking in disappeared. Shortly afterwards, all the icons on the desktop disappeared, followed by the icons in the sidebar in the finder. - They are not deleted, I just couldn't see them.
After I accidentally nocked the computer, they came back. I repaired permissions, restarted, and everything was fine except the icons did NOT come back in the sidebar. - All that is there is Desktop, my name, and Applications. - Stuff like Library, Documents etc. have vanished. - I can get to them by going another route, but I can't get them back. (I can still see the sidebar fine).
Even when I went to the Sidebar preferences, the missing folders were not there to be ticked. I have deleted the relevant preference files (as I read in other posts), logged out, but it didn't change anything.
I have NOT installed any new stuff lately, no software updates or anything. I did download some zip files, but their source is reliable and I trust them. I was listening to a copy-protected CD earlier, but I doubt that has anything to do with it.
But the most worrying thing is, just now there were signs of the same thing happening again! - The icons in the folder I was looking in disappeared!
What should I do? - Is this a symptom of a bigger problem?
Thanks, all help is appreciated.

Well it looks like people are either unwilling or unable to help me, but in case anyone has a similar trouble in the future, here's what I did:
I went to System Preferences > Accounts, and created another account. - I then logged into this new account, and everything was fine. So, I copied the following files from Library > Preferences and pasted them into my original account in the same place (over-writing the previous files). (You need to copy them to the Applications folder first, or somewhere that is visable on all accounts). After logging out and in again, everything was fine in the original account. (Although I had to change a few things to get things back how I like them). The files to copy are:
com.apple.sidebarlists.plist
com.apple.finder.plist
My only worry now is that this is just putting a temporary patch on a symptom, and that some underlying problem still remains, ready to rear its ugly head at any opportunity. - Only time will tell I guess. In the mean time, everything is as it should be, and nothing seems to have been permanently lost.

SCCM 2007 - All clients from primary site have vanished from central site collections

Hi all,
we have a SCCM 2007 R2 setup with one central site, one Primary Site (A) with a secondary site hanging off it and another Primary Site (B). Suddenly all the clients from the Primary Site A (and also it's Secondary Site) have vanished from the central
site. All the clients are still present when we check Collections from the admin console on Primary Site A site server - they have simply disappeared when we check Collections from the Central Site admin console.
Can anyone provide any info on a good starting point for troubleshooting this issue? As a sidenote, we can still push packages out to the Primary Site A distribution point and both the Primary and Central site can communicate/ping each other.
Any help/info would be much appreciated!
Thanks

Check the
site replication on central site, is that SQL is working fine, and also see the
inbox folder in central site, might be there is backlog and those DDR files are
not processing, and after maintenance they got deleted.<o:p></o:p>
please run
the heartbeat discovery by hour or day, and once the clients will sent all the
DDR files then they will appears again.<o:p></o:p>
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Just updated WD Drive Utilities - now all my WD external disks have vanished from desktop

I have just been using one of my 4TB My Book external disks on a MacBook AIR running 10.10.4All well and good. Only 1 installed at a time using the USB port. But the system told me there is a WD update so I installed it. Immediately after installing WD Drive Utilities and trying it out the WD disk on the desktop greyed out, then vanished completely. I pulled out the USB cable and put it back into the MacBook. The desktop icon for the WD drive reappeared, but greyed out, then vanished. So I thought it must be the new update so I uninstalled it using the WD Uninstall program. Same problem. I have an older (2014) WD Drive Utilities install-software on a MyPassport drive so I plugged in the USB for that drive, same problem, that is also greyed out and then vanishes from the desktop. So I tried the My Book again, using Disk Utilities in the MacBook. It sees the drive at first, but then it vanishes within 5 seconds. Disk Utilities says "Error: A disk with a mount point is required". I am very loathe to plug in my other 2 MyBook 3TB drives in case these also vanish or become unuseable for this same reason. I have a huge amount of data backed up on all of these disks. I think the disks are okay and maybe if I can get hold of older WD software from 2014 then I can backtrack and put it back the way it was. As a first step does anyone know where I can get hold of older WD software such as Drive Utilities (I think that was the one which did it). Or is there some files it has installed on the MacBook hidden away somewhere which I can delete?

July 2015 Solution for Multiple Problems with a New ‘My Passport for Mac’ (Note: I am posting this same message in response to several topics in this Forum, since the symptoms sounded similar to mine and I suspect WD software is causing them.) Like many other Users here, I recently bought a new external WD drive. The irony here is that I already own 3 other WD external drives, and they have been running fine for several years on our two Mac computers for photo and backup uses. Not so with this new drive. Following the WD installation steps, I first installed their software WD Drive Utilities and WD Security. And then my confusion started, because I now got the message ‘Error in RAID configuration’, even though I don’t use RAID and had done nothing except plug in the new drive. I ran the WD Drive Utility, Status Check, and my laptop actually crashed! I also saw the new drive mount at first, then spontaneously dismount after a minute or so. I even dismounted the new disk, mounted one of my older disks I have used for several years, and now it reported ‘Error in RAID configuration’, something it had never done before, and when I ran the WD Drive Utility, Status Check, on my older Passport drive my laptop again crashed. Like others here, I wasted a lot of time trying to resolve this, but let me skip all that and get right to what I did to get this new disk (and my old ones) to work correctly again. Solution which worked for me: I uninstalled the WD Drive Utilities software (the entire folder) completely. So far I have not uninstalled the WD Security software, although I have not dared to use it yet and likely never will. To uninstall WD Drive utilities, I used the free app AppCleaner from freemacsoft.net (NOT the app in the Mac App store similarly named App Cleaner; it may work just as well, but I have never used it.) Now that the WD Drive Utility is off my computer, I can use the new WD Passport and all my older Passport drives. I have run Apple’s Disk Utility, Verify, numerous times on the new drive, and using Carbon Copy Cloner I have cloned up to 340 GB to the new Passport drive, followed by Verifying it, without errors or any of the symptoms listed above. WD versions for me were: WD Drive Utilities 2.0.2.18, which folder contained WDDriveUtilityHelper 1.0.0.16. I hope this helps others on this Forum.

Bluetooth mode prevents notification sounds for all items (Text, Alerts, Mail, etc.), except the phone ringer?

It seems that the use of the iPhone 4 Bluetooth to a phone headset (In this case a hearing aid 'streamer') prevents all other phone option sounds (Text, Alerts, mail, etc.) from working. Is it normal that there is a conflict between the iPhone 4 Bluetooth use and other phone item sound notifications?

No, iOS does not offer that option. You can offer Apple feedback here: http://www.apple.com/feedback/

New install all Bookmarks, History and passwords have vanished

OK not happy....
1. Firstly I never gave firefox permission to install the new 29.01 firefox, I just booted up my macbook pro and bingo firefox was installed!!!
2. now I no longer have any passwords, bookmarks or any History, If I knew firefox was going to just install it self i would of back up all bookmarks and passwords.
So now I no longer have anything i have looked around this forum all all it explains is how to recover them from a saved file ( which i have done before ).
So now I might as well go and find another browser as there is nothing i can do... and i dont need a browser in my life that just dumps everything!!!

ok lets try again, but thanks for the quick reply and helpful link although I can't see this is helpful in my case.
Ok is it possible that firefox might have saved the files/config from the previous version of firefox so I could retrieve the date and install/add to this new updated version of firefox.
I DO NOT have an up to date bookmark and password backup its a few months old (ah yes I know I should of backed up but I didn't *yawn*)

HT1386 After updating my iPad all my albums seam to have vanished ?how do I get them back

I updated to iOS 7.1 on my iPad mini retainer ,when I went to see my music not all my albums were there all my Beatles albums had. Gone and johny cash ones too I did a backup but that doesn't seem to work either can any one help me ?

Fist, Verify the Drive in Disk Utility, if OK then...
I'd get EasyFind...
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/11076
Here's a direct download link to EasyFind 4.0 which runs in 10.3.9 & up...
http://www.devon-technologies.com/files/legacy/macosx1039/EasyFind.dmg.zip
From this page,
http://www.devon-technologies.com/support/faqs.php?p=default&cat=19
Freeware applications:
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    * PhotoStickies 5.6
    * ThumbsUp 4.3
    * XMenu 1.8
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/8707
Use it to search your whole drive for case insensitive & show invisibles...
.emlx
(dot ee em el ex)
Find Any File...
http://apps.tempel.org/FindAnyFile/
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HT4236 I don't have Photo Tab under Devices in iTunes

How to find it?

You don't have a Photos tab on the left-hand side of iTunes, if you select the iPad 'device' on the left-hand side then you should see a Photos tab (along with Music, Movies, Apps etc) along the top on the right-hand side - if you select that tab you can then select which photo folders to sync to the iPad. There is a bit more info on this page. You will need to sync all the photos that you want on the iPad together in one go as only the most recent photo sync remains on the iPad - synced photos can't be deleted directly on the iPad, instead they are deleted by not including them in the next photo sync.

My Junk and Deleted Mailboxes have vanished.

When I upgraded to Yosemite, both my Junk Mail and Deleted Items mailboxes in Mail have vanished. I can neither find them or create new ones. If I delete something accidentally, or if a new sender gets tagged as Junk my mistake, I can't recover the emails.
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Regarding the Outbox mailbox with Tiger Mail, check
this link.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mail/2.0/
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No Junk icon/folder is available in the mailboxes
drawer when Junk Mail is set to Training. Is Junk
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Okay, sort of solved!
I had Mail's junk preferences selected as perform custom actions. However, if I put it in training, will it 'learn' what I decide as junk insofar as, when I select automatic again, it'll 'know' what I've previously decided as junk?
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Help my tool bars have vanished!

When I opened Illustrator CS5 today I notice all of my tool bars have vanished. I would like to know how to get them back. I'm using Windows.

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Items in project report(query) are listed under the "not assigned" (column)

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Have new computer and want to put all items on current iPod to new computer. How can I do this?

I have a new computer, other one crashed. I would like to transfer all items currently on iPod into iTunes. iTunes wants me to erase to sync. I don't want to lose everything I have. How do I take care of this?

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All of a sudden, my ipod touch will only recognize/play purchased items. I then have to completely reset the ipod and re-sync. I've had to do this 6 times, and support has been no help.

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I believe firefox has updated itself recently and when it did so I have had items removed from the desk top and all my picturs and documents have been moved, my profile settings are now gone as well. Help please

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How can I find my email in Apple Mail from before my company switched hosting providers? People with Outlook have all of their old and new emails. My old emails have vanished from Apple Mail.

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