????How to recover vanished files after upgrading Big Sur?????

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????How to recover vanished files after upgrading Big Sur?????

My files except desktop and photos are all vanished after I upgrading from yosemite to Big Sur. I haven't received any notification to copy my files into portable disks or something like that. So I moved downloads and documents to boot disk, however all of these and other files are deleted. Despite the fault of mine or operating system, I really need to recover the files that deleted. Please help ????

My previous OS was Yosemite 10.10.05 and was so poor, I even couldn't download apps and safari couldn't access to some websites including Wikipedia. Please help me to recover my files

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 11.1

Posted on Dec 30, 2020 11:52 AM

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John Galt

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Dec 30, 2020 11:56 AM in response to ulziibuyan

The usual method of recovering missing files is to restore them from a Time Machine backup.

Restore items backed up with Time Machine on Mac - Apple Support

By chance did you enable Desktop and Documents in iCloud Drive?

Add your Desktop and Documents files to iCloud Drive - Apple Support

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Barney-15E

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Dec 30, 2020 11:58 AM in response to ulziibuyan

Did you move them prior to upgrading? You should not have been able to move them to top level of the drive in Big Sur. If you moved them before upgrading, look for them in /Users/Shared/Relocated Items/

If you moved them after, where exactly did you try to move them?

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Tesserax

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Dec 30, 2020 11:56 AM in response to ulziibuyan

Did you backup (Time Machine, for example), BEFORE upgrading from Yosemite to Big Sur? If so, then you should be able to recover all of your data from a backup.

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????How to recover vanished files after upgrading Big Sur?????

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