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Entire contents of Desktop Missing

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?

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Posted on Jun 3, 2020 2:19 PM

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Posted on Jun 3, 2020 2:23 PM

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.

  1. From your Mac, go to Apple menu > System Preferences > iCloud.
  2. Next to iCloud Drive, click Options.
  3. Deselect Desktop & Documents Folders.
  4. Click Done.
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Jun 3, 2020 2:23 PM in response to Washit

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.

  1. From your Mac, go to Apple menu > System Preferences > iCloud.
  2. Next to iCloud Drive, click Options.
  3. Deselect Desktop & Documents Folders.
  4. Click Done.

Entire contents of Desktop Missing

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