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This morning, all of my desktop items had disappeared from my MacBookPro. I run Catalina. So I rebooted the laptop and when it restarted, it automatically installed the Catalina 10.15.4 update. Still no desktop items. Where did they go and how do I get them back?
MacBook
Go to Finder > Preferences > General and be sure the items you keep on your Desktop are check marked.
Are you using iCloud Drive? If you are turn off Desktop & Documents:
Add your Desktop and Documents files to iCloud Drive - Apple Support
When you turn off Desktop and Documents, your files stay in iCloud Drive and a new folder is created on your Mac. You can move files from iCloud Drive to your Mac as you need them, or select all of your files and drag them to the place you want to keep them.
> System Preferences > iCloud.Go to Finder > Preferences > General and be sure the items you keep on your Desktop are check marked.
Are you using iCloud Drive? If you are turn off Desktop & Documents:
Add your Desktop and Documents files to iCloud Drive - Apple Support
When you turn off Desktop and Documents, your files stay in iCloud Drive and a new folder is created on your Mac. You can move files from iCloud Drive to your Mac as you need them, or select all of your files and drag them to the place you want to keep them.
> System Preferences > iCloud.THANK YOU!! That did the trick! Not sure what happened there but very appreciative that you fixed it for me. :)
Glad it worked! :D
Entire contents of Desktop Missing
