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Lost files and folders from desktop

Opened MacBook Air one morning and all of my files and folders had disappeared. I did something to al least have them pull from the cloud. Need to put back on hard drive/desktop.

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Aug 2, 2020 12:31 PM

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Aug 3, 2020 9:41 AM in response to kromack78

Selecting "store documents in I cloud" put them back on my desktop but these files were created on my computer and should not just disappear because something is wrong with I cloud i did not select store documents on I cloud for a reason!). Do I now need to make a backup of all items on my computer to disable I cloud? I really don't want to use this anymore if it is just going to hijack materials off of my desktop when I had not authorized Icloud to touch these files.

Lost files and folders from desktop

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