Finder Directory Changes / Local Documents and Desktop Folders No Longer In Side Panel

Richardchic, Do you have option set to put your Documents and Desktop folders in the cloud? (System Preferences/ Apple ID / iCloud Drive / options ) is this option checked? Also you can drag any folder from a finder window to the sidebar to add it to the sidebar. Also check your finder preferences to make sure that the favorites section still has checked for Documents and Desktop folders.

I hope this helps.

Paul

Richardchic, no concerns per say. I was just checking to see if they could be a cause. Glad the finder preferences worked. Sometimes upgrades accidentally switch some minor settings.

It is my understanding that yes the files are still on your local drive but MacOS might offload them to the cloud at anytime. I'm not sure what the determining factor is. Some of the podcasters that I listen to have mentioned that while they were editing the audio file for broadcast that suddenly the file was longer where the application thought it was. They determined that it was uploaded to icloud. This is the main reason why I don't have it turned on.

I hope this helps.

Paul