The sidebar in files only shows the default pinned folders and a few network shares I was able to 'bookmark".
I would like a full folder tree like windows. Haw can I do this?
I am not aware of a means of making Nautilus (Files) do that. If you click the hamburger icon > Preferences - you will see that many options and settings have been removed.
I use Nemo File Manager instead. Nemo is a fork of Nautilus with the settings, options and preferences restored. In Nemo, click view then for sidebar select Tree.
You can install with
sudo apt update && sudo apt install nemo
If you find that you prefer it, you can set is as your default File Manager (Note that the file picker is a different function than the file manager.)
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That's more like it;) Thanks again.
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I noticed yesterday that "other locations" no longer shows in the files manager 
How can I make that show again?
I didn't notice it right away and I've moved that PC. Short version, it was connected via cat6 now it's using wifi.
Correct me if I am wrong, but did you switch to Nemo FM a while back?
If so, Nemo does not show "Other Locations" and the round-about way Gnomes File Manager does that.
Instead, you can move directly up the tree without jumping through hoops by hitting the Up Arrow on the toolbar to elevate and the down arrow to drop down the tree.
Mounted files will appear in the left pane list.
Just wondering if Midnight Commander might be a better solution?
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I noticed a little oddity that's actually handy.
First, I installed Nemo and I like the way it works.
Second, I added a second drive to the PC. It only had a single NVMe when I installed the OS. I added a HDD and formatted it for linux. Now I have an eject device button in the systray. Confusion: Why would I eject an internal HDD?
Third, I noticed if I R-Click the eject button, I can then click "Files" and it opens the original file manager so now I have easy access to both.
The eject button appears to be there for drives and partitions that aren't mounted by default (that is, you've gone into Disks or used another method to tell the system to mount something it ordinarily wouldn't). Mine includes three semi-permanent USB drives (SATA drives in a USB enclosure), one USB flash drive, and two mounted partitions on a second, internal SSD, neither of which are part of the standard Linux hierarchy. It looks to me like a quick and easy way to dismount a drive/partition the OS can run without, which is functionally what "ejecting" a USB drive is.
As to why, my best guess would be to ensure you can't do anything weird by accident. Though I've stricken Windows from my system, my storage HDD is still formatted NTFS, as I haven't gotten around to backing it up and reformatting it. Since I've heard of rare occasions of Linux messing up NTFS partitions due to NTFS being a closed specification that's not perfectly handled, I might choose to click eject when I'm done with that drive, so Linux doesn't get any bright ideas about handling it.
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