The Storage Studio location is missing from Finder

The Storage Studio entry under Locations in Finder's sidebar is there only while Storage Studio is running and its Finder drive is switched on. If it's missing, open Storage Studio, check the Mounting tab in Remotes & Accounts, and click Remount / Repair. On some Macs Storage Studio uses a fallback drive instead, which works the same but isn't listed under Locations.

Likely causes

• Storage Studio isn't running. When you quit it, the location is removed from Finder; it comes back the next time Storage Studio opens.
• The Finder drive is switched off on the Mounting tab, or every source in it is switched off. With nothing to show, the status reads "Nothing to mount yet".
• The drive stopped. The status line says "The cloud drive stopped responding. Use Remount / Repair to start it again." or "No account could be reached".
• You're on the fallback drive. On a Mac where the Finder location can't start, Storage Studio mounts a drive instead. The Mounting tab says: "This is the fallback drive — Finder doesn't list it under Locations, so open it with the button below."
• Finder's sidebar is hiding it — for example the Locations section is collapsed.

%% caption: Bringing back the Storage Studio location in Finder
flowchart TD
  A[No Storage Studio under Locations in Finder] --> B{Is Storage Studio running?}
  B -->|No| C[Open Storage Studio]
  B -->|Yes| D[Open Remotes and Accounts, Mounting tab]
  C --> D
  D --> E{Is Mount everything as one Finder drive on?}
  E -->|No| F[Turn it on]
  E -->|Yes| G{Does it say this is the fallback drive?}
  G -->|Yes| H[Use Open the Drive]
  G -->|No| I[Click Remount / Repair]

How to fix it

1. Make sure Storage Studio is running. Look for its menu bar icon, or open it from Applications.
2. Open the Mounting tab. Choose Connect Accounts… from the More menu (in the Advanced view, Cloud Accounts…), then the Mounting tab.
3. Check the main switch. Mount everything as one Finder drive should be on. Below it, each account, This Mac and each paired device has its own switch — at least one must be on. The status line should read "On — in Finder under Locations, as “Storage Studio”".
4. Click Remount / Repair. It rebuilds the drive; the status shows "Repairing…" and then settles.
5. If it says you're on the fallback drive, that's expected on some Macs — click Open the Drive to reach your files. See When the location falls back to a mounted drive.
6. Check Finder's sidebar. Hover over Locations in the sidebar and make sure the section is expanded. Finder's own Settings → Sidebar controls which kinds of item it shows.
7. Restart Storage Studio from the menu bar icon's right-click menu if it still doesn't appear.

An account that can't be reached is skipped until it's back, without affecting the others — so one signed-out account doesn't remove the whole location. See When an account needs signing in again.

See also: The Storage Studio location in Finder · The Finder button in the main window · Why Google Photos isn't in the Finder location · Something's not working: start here