After upgrading to Big Sur on MacMini M1 from High Sierra my Documents folder is invisible. It shows up in the finder window, when pressing cmd-shift-dot and it shows up in the application save menus.
So it is present on the computer, contains some Microsoft idendities, but not visible.
I tried turning on and off iCloud Drive. No improvement. iCloud Drive just asks me to buy more space...
What to do?
dr. meguro wrote:
Sorry for not being clear.
I migrated from an iMac i7 late 2010 2,93 Ghz with High Sierra 10.13.6 to a Mac Mini M1 Apple Silicon Big Sur 11.1 from an external backup disk of my iMac. The backup disk was created with Carbon Copy Cloner on High Sierra.
The migration process was the standard Apple procedure in Big Sur.
I can save files to the invisible Documenst folder - just it is not visible in the finder windows.
Your Documents folder is in your User/Home folder
If you want to see it in the Finder
Make changes
Finder>Preferences>Sidebar
If iCloud drive got turned on by default—missing desktop and documents
Add your Desktop and Documents files to iCloud Drive - Apple ...
Set up iCloud Drive - Apple Support
How to Restore Your Desktop and Documents After Disabling ...
How to find your Documents and Desktop folder contents after ...
Finder>Go>Go to Folder>copy & paste:
~/iCloud Drive (Archive)
iCLoud Drive (Archive) - here you should find all your files
dr. meguro wrote:
Sorry for not being clear.
I migrated from an iMac i7 late 2010 2,93 Ghz with High Sierra 10.13.6 to a Mac Mini M1 Apple Silicon Big Sur 11.1 from an external backup disk of my iMac. The backup disk was created with Carbon Copy Cloner on High Sierra.
The migration process was the standard Apple procedure in Big Sur.
I can save files to the invisible Documenst folder - just it is not visible in the finder windows.
Your Documents folder is in your User/Home folder
If you want to see it in the Finder
Make changes
Finder>Preferences>Sidebar
If iCloud drive got turned on by default—missing desktop and documents
Add your Desktop and Documents files to iCloud Drive - Apple ...
Set up iCloud Drive - Apple Support
How to Restore Your Desktop and Documents After Disabling ...
How to find your Documents and Desktop folder contents after ...
Finder>Go>Go to Folder>copy & paste:
~/iCloud Drive (Archive)
iCLoud Drive (Archive) - here you should find all your files
dr. meguro wrote:
Hi Leroy Douglas,
thank you very much. This worked !
How complicated and non-intuitive, though.
The biggest hurdle was, that I had some mp4 files on my desktop (from the problems migrating from iTunes to Music, but that is another story), so when I tried to have my desktop and Document folders on iCloud, Apple always tried to sell me 200GB of iCloud space, because they thought I need it.
And I still don‘t know why they just deleted the Documents folder and put it in the iCloud Drive without telling me before.
Good computing dr. meguro !
You can submit Apple Feedback http://www.apple.com/feedback regarding your experience.
I have never turned on the iCloud Drive for this very reason...
First off - the Mac mini M1 came with Big Sur pre-installed so upGraded from High Sierra to Big Sur would be impossible. Besides, High Sierra would not and could not run on Mac Mini M1 Silicon chip. So please, redefine the details and issue and maybe we can assist.
Sorry for not being clear.
I migrated from an iMac i7 late 2010 2,93 Ghz with High Sierra 10.13.6 to a Mac Mini M1 Apple Silicon Big Sur 11.1 from an external backup disk of my iMac. The backup disk was created with Carbon Copy Cloner on High Sierra.
The migration process was the standard Apple procedure in Big Sur.
I can save files to the invisible Documenst folder - just it is not visible in the finder windows.
Hi Leroy Douglas,
thank you very much. This worked !
How complicated and non-intuitive, though.
The biggest hurdle was, that I had some mp4 files on my desktop (from the problems migrating from iTunes to Music, but that is another story), so when I tried to have my desktop and Document folders on iCloud, Apple always tried to sell me 200GB of iCloud space, because they thought I need it.
And I still don‘t know why they just deleted the Documents folder and put it in the iCloud Drive without telling me before.
Hi Leroy,
I never had it turned on either.
But during the migration and setup process of my Mac Mini M1 they are asking if you want to have it set up and without even thinking that something like this could happen, I mistakenly checked Yes. It seems a bit sneaky to me.
Thanks again!
Big Sur M1: Documents folder invisible
