The Finder sidebar does not shortcuts to folders

On my MacBook Pro mid 2014 running OS X 10.11.6 El Capitan, the sidebar of the Finder displays often only "devices" and "shared". It occurs randomly, sometimes it works for a day, then all of a sudden, breaks, and it is also randomly after a reboot.

A related issue is perhaps that, in all of my native applications Mac, the "Open recent" menu is always empty. However, the questions are not directly related, which means that "Open the recent item" may work for at the same time, the sidebar of the Finder doesn't.

I'm a developer, so a possible cause may be that I installed a bunch of third-party software that modifies the system and something went wrong. I use homebrew and MacPorts is used in the past. I would like to avoid a clean reinstallation because it takes so much time. Maybe someone can point me in the right direction? What damaged setting could cause this behavior?

Have you checked it in the preferences? Sidebar Finder - preferences - and you can check or uncheck the items you want to see in the sidebar

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