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In Finder look on the side and delete what's not working. Then click on iCloud Drive and drag what you need to the side. This worked for me.

I found a solution...

- Search for folders in Spotlight

- Drag them into Favorites sidebar

- If necessary, right click and select "Show in enclosing folder"

- Drag folder display at top of window bar back into Favorites sidebar

Only thing that still doesn't work is displaying top level folder when clicking on Macintosh HD.

Thanks. Have checked it out because I found another solution.

What I did was delete the desktop folder and documents folder and re-added them into the sidebar

Remove them from sidbar and drag and drop them from user profile to sidebar, It worked for me

I had the same problem. I fixed it by removing Documents and Desktop from the Finder sidebar and then adding them back. Here's how to do it Open Finder. On the Finder sidebar, right-click (or Ctrl-click) on Documents and choose Remove from Sidebar. Do the same thing for Desktop. On the menu bar at the top, click Finder and choose Preferences. Click the Sidebar tab at the top. Check the box for Documents and Desktop. Close the Finder Preferences window. NOTE: I've read that some users have a similar problem that might be related to iCloud and having the Documents and Desktop folders synced there. I don't use iCloud for these things, so I can't say if the problem is also caused by that.

this worked perfect!

thanks!!! this worked for me too. i had just removed files from my sync'd dropbox when this issue popped up

I fixed this issue by renaming my own macbook's HD from "Macintosh HD" to something else, next it started working!!! I think error was because of same name on remote mac (air m1) and my own

none of these worked for me?????

Thanks a lot! this worked for me also.

i've been bashing my head about it for a while now. i looked under my home folder /Users/myname/ and saw that there were two aliases "Documents" and "Desktop" that were actually broken links. i removed them, and mac auto created them again, now all is fine :)

None of this worked for me but I was able to solve the problem the old school way.

I went into the sharing system preferences and into options. I unchecked everything. There was a user for sharing privileges in the list that was called undefined (or something like that: this also was a new mac that had been migrated from the old one). I removed that user in the privileges list. I had tried before but with the check marks enabled, it would not let me. This time is did. (Presumably, it was in use.) It wasn't in the apple users list so no need to worry about that. I then went back to options and checked everything back on.

Presto! The sharing was fixed.

I hope that helps.

This also happens to me periodically. And, while I agree that the "broken" bookmark can be repaired by deleting it and then drag/dropping a new bookmark from the target, I would prefer not to have to do this over and over. The whole reason I use the bookmarks (and I have many) is because the targets are spread across many file-shares and often very deep directory paths. It is a royal pain in the *** to have to recreate these bookmarks periodically. Is there no understanding as to why these bookmarks lose their targets in the first place?