Connection Failed Prompt Caused by Network Drive Shortcut

So I've been having this problem where I've added Network Drives to the shortcuts column in my finder window... It seems that when these drives are not connected Finder is still looking for them and I get periodic "Connection Failed" prompts telling me that the computer is unable to mount these drives.
Is there anyway to correct this issue?

I think Finder thinks that anything in the Sidebar is mounted. A Dock icon or alias might work.

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