Sidebar alias to nas folder disappears

I use several nas folders from a thecus nas, mounted with AFP. Some of them i have dragged to the sidebar to "Favorites". With OS/X 10.6, 10.7 and 10.8 all was running well. Every time i clicked on an alias, the folder comes up or comes up after it was automatically mounted.
Since updating to OS/X 10.9 the aliases disappears from the sidebar under several conditions. Common to those is, that the folder is not mounted when clicking on the alias. When f.i. trying to store a file in a nas folder while the folder is not mounted, under 10.6-8 the folder got mounted and storing was possible. Now, under 10.9, clicking on a not mounted alias folder, the folder disappears from the sidebar, in the store dialog sidebar as well as in the finder sidebar. And there are several other situations which makes the alias disappear.
Has anybody an idea what the problem is (with Mavericks) and how to solve it ?

I have been experiencing an allied problem where aliases to files that I put into the sidebar periodically disappear...

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