On 4/15/08 2:01 PM, nk wrote: > Sorry...I wasn't clear in my explanation. The hard drives' icons do > show up whenever I re-mount them. > what doesn't show up are icons from folders on those hard drives > which I've dragged into the sidebar. > > When the dock can't find something, at least it shows a question mark > or asks where the item is. The sidebar merely tosses any icons from > volumes not found. > > Maybe that's the way it is an nothing to do about that? Maybe you could make a folder on your hard disk, with aliases to the folders on the external disks in that one folder, and then THAT folder wouldn't disappear? I don't know if the aliases would maintain their reliability when media is ejected regularly or not.