If a volume (I tested with an USB Stick) is plugged out without pressing "eject" before and re-plugged in, than the right side (icon/detailed/compact view) will be empty / will show nothing. Just selecting some other volume and than re-selecting the usb-stick in the shortcut-view fixes the glitch.
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