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Mar 25, 2014 11:39 AM in response to rich230by Kappy,I'm sorry, but I don't even see a Documents folder in the sidebar under Favorites. Try navigating to the /Home/ folder, then drag the Documents folder into the Sidebar. Or open Finder preferences, click on the Sidebar icon in the toolbar, then check the box to include Documents in the sidebar.
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Mar 25, 2014 11:54 AM in response to rich230by Kappy,And what happens if you change the view to List? What should be displayed in place of the circle is an icon. Is your Home folder relocated by chance? Or is the Documents folder relocated? I would start by this:
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions - Mavericks, Lion/Mountain Lion
Boot to the Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
Repair
When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported then click on the Repair Permissions button. When the process is completed, then quit DU and return to the main menu. Select Restart from the Apple menu.
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Mar 25, 2014 1:18 PM in response to Kappyby rich230,Interesting. I had never done that before. In fact I did try to create two different users on my mac but in the end went back to a consolidated user (attempting to put a hard seperation between business and personal files). Do you believe repairing the harddrive will fix this problem? BTW, Thanks for the help.
-Rich
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Mar 25, 2014 1:31 PM in response to rich230by Kappy,Don't rightly know. Combining two users is very problematical because of different ownership privileges. Do you still have the two user accounts? It is possible this is all caused by something you did trying to "combine" the two.
I have never come across a Finder display like what you have posted.
My instructions would not help this type of issue. You would need to perform a different procedure to correct permissions issues within a user account, namely:
Reset User Permissions and ACLs in Lion/Mountain Lion
Boot to the Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
From the Utilities menu select Terminal. At the Terminal prompt enter: resetpassword. Press RETURN. When the window opens select your startup drive where it says "Select the volume containing the user account:" At the bottom of the window you will see, "Reset Home folder permissions and ACLs." Click on the Reset button.
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Mar 25, 2014 2:12 PM in response to Kappyby rich230,When I got to the resetpassword utility there were no volumes displayed. I am using FileVault, could that be an issue?
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Mar 25, 2014 2:59 PM in response to rich230by Kappy,★HelpfulYes. It may have something to do with the entire problem. Can you turn it off? I'm not familiar with all of the workings of FileVault or FileVault 2. The first one was a bit difficult to disable because it had to make another copy of the Home folder.
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Mar 25, 2014 3:11 PM in response to Kappyby rich230,I really appreciate your help on this but it seems like the solution is not a quick one and the inconvience is minor so I'll likely just let this go until I upgrade to my next Mac and start clean. Thanks again.
-Rich
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Aug 24, 2015 11:15 AM in response to rich230by Joey Luder,go to the "View" menu when you have your documents folder selected in the sidebar. Select "arrange by" then "none"


