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oldTitus Author

Level 1

4 points

Desktop disappeared

All my desktop icons have disappeared. Desktop screen in Finder is blank. I have found the document I was last working on in Recents. Where has my Desktop gone?

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Nov 12, 2020 10:10 AM

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BDAqua

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Nov 12, 2020 11:49 AM in response to oldTitus

Check Sys Prefs>iCloud & see if iCloud Drive got enabled.

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