Show or hide the sidebar. Before you ask how do I add a folder to favorites in mac, you need first to learn how to show or hide the sidebar. Starting with OS X 10.6, you can hide the Finder’s sidebar to create more room or display it to get easy access to several files, locations, and apps from within the Finder’s window.
The prime reason why I like to keep Dropbox in Favorites is to be able to access it a bit easily. Here is how you can quickly add this cloud-based app to Favorites in Finder on your Mac. How to Add Dropbox to Favorites in Finder Sidebar on your Mac. First off, open Finder on your Mac.

Though you can shuffle the position of app shortcuts in the Dock, you can't move the Finder or Trash — they live on opposite ends of the Dock, respectively — nor can you mix file shortcuts with apps in the same section. How to add apps to the Dock on your Mac. Launch a Finder window from your Dock. Click on Applications in the sidebar. To add a file or application to the sidebar, you need to either use a menu item or keyboard shortcut. Select the item, then choose File Add to Sidebar, or press Control-Command-T. The OS X Finder sidebar and Dock are convenient locations for favorite folders, documents, applications, and locations, and in addition the Dock offers a convenient place for minimized windows, as.

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Just like most OS X interface components, you're able to customize the Sidebar to your liking. This guide will demonstrate how you can add and remove items to and from the Sidebar. As described in the What is the Sidebar guide, the items in the Sidebar are just shortcuts that allow you to navigate or access items with a single click.

Add an item
Just follow the same procedure you would to add an item to the Dock. Simply drag the item from it's location to the Sidebar. As you do this you will see a blue horizontal bar appear indicating the location where you are placing it in the sidebar.

In the example below, the Pictures folder will be placed below the Documents folder shortcut. Now you can easily access your Pictures folder no matter where you have navigated to within are in Finder, just click on it in the Sidebar.

Ensure that you see the blue horizontal line when you are placing an item in the Sidebar. If you see that an existing item becomes highlighted with a blue box, the item you intend to add to Sidebar will instead get added to the shortcut. In the image below, an image called test_image will be added to the Picture folder by simply placing it on top of the Pictures folder. If you place the image over the folder and hold for a while, Finder will automatically place a darker blue box around the item (just after a cool blink effect) and then switch to the folder as shown in the second image. Once you release, the item will be placed in the folder.

Remove an item
One way to remove an item is to drag it out of the Sidebar. Once you release as you drag, the item will disappear with a puff of smoke just as items removed from the Dock. As is the case with removing icons from the Dock, you have only removed it from the Sidebar and have not deleted it. Keep in mind that you are removing a shortcut and not the actual item such as the Pictures folder.

An alternate remove method is to right click (or control click) on the item and select 'Remove from Sidebar'

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