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I lost all my files in Documents when I created a signature through Adobe in a PDF and save it in Documents. It saved as Documents andreplaced the entire contents of my Documents folder. How is that even possible

It replaced the entire contents of my Documents folder with the one PDF document. How can I retrieve my lost files? They are not in the trash, they disappeared from my computer altogether. How is that even possible?

Posted on Jul 8, 2020 10:15 AM

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Posted on Jul 8, 2020 1:40 PM

That takes some doing!

Assuming they have not simply bern moved elsewhere the only remedy is to recover your documents folder from your Time Machine backup

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I lost all my files in Documents when I created a signature through Adobe in a PDF and save it in Documents. It saved as Documents andreplaced the entire contents of my Documents folder. How is that even possible

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