When you add your Desktop and Documents files to iCloud Drive, the Desktop and Documents folders in your Home folder become hidden. These are still the correct folders; i.e. when opened, these hidden folders show your files stored in iCloud.
Why are they hidden? Why shouldn't I be able to access my Desktop and Documents from my Home folder? Are there any downsides to using Terminal to show them again?
MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 10.15
Those two folders get added to the iCloud Drive icon in the Finder sidebar:
I don't have the Desktop and Documents folders added to the drive but you access them via the iCloud Drive in the sidebar. It's the nature of the beast.
None of those even remotely address my questions.
>you access them via the iCloud Drive in the sidebar.
I'm aware, but that doesn't answer any of my questions.
They aren't hidden, just accessed differently.
They are indeed hidden.
Zarquon42 wrote:
When you add your Desktop and Documents files to iCloud Drive, the Desktop and Documents folders in your Home folder become hidden. These are still the correct folders; i.e. when opened, these hidden folders show your files stored in iCloud.
Why are they hidden? Why shouldn't I be able to access my Desktop and Documents from my Home folder? Are there any downsides to using Terminal to show them again?
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