Hi!

So one day I open Krita to continue working on my project only to discover the left sidebar had completely disappeared! I've looked through the forums and tried all the solutions that were offered on those posts, but none worked. I also tried to reinstall Krita a couple of times, but it didn't work.

If anyone else had this problem and found a way to fix it, please help! I would really appreciate it, without this sidebar, I can't switch tools.

Reinstalling will never solve anything... But you can either go to the right-most toolbar button and select one of the predefined workspaces, or try to remove Krita's configuration. On Windows, close Krita, press the Windows and R key, in the dialog type "AppData". The file explorer will open in your user's appdata directory. Navigate to "Roaming" and rename or remove the Krita folder. Or keep Shift pressed when starting Krita and select to clear your config.