Desktop Files Missing Since Sequoia Update

It was pointed out that I was mistaken with regards to the Keys to hit. I apologize for that mistake.

Try:

"Shift+OPTION+Period"

Oh, one more thing. A few times (out of a LOT of restarts) my desktop folders DID come back. I have no idea why but sometimes they do.

Just saying.

Yes, thank you, I had the same problem and it was Parallels Tool Box that for some reason had gone to Presentation Mode. When I unchecked "Hide desktop files" all the icons came back.

Same here and this is rediculous. Apple can eat it on this one. The weird thing is that I can open documents through recent files on my desktop. I can find desktop folders on my desktop and open via search that is if I know what was there.... Here is a tip. I noticed FileZilla shows my files on the desktop through FileZilla. I created a Couchdrop account and uploaded all my desktop folders and files. Then downloaded to an external drive.

Also my hard drive space did not change so I knew this looked like an indexing issue.

Apple please do better.

I have found that the files and folders are now HIDDEN.

Hold down "Shift" + "Option" and hit the PERIOD Key. Your stuff will show up. It is STILL in Hidden mode, but at least you can see it along with any other stuff that was hidden.

Interesting. Either I don't follow you or it doesn't work for me. I don't see anything new.

However I have another example of the problem. I reboot and find everything OK on the Desktop. I then plug in the external monitor I use off and on. ALL THE DESKTOP ITEMS THEN DISAPPEAR and I have to recover them from backup again. This time they all say "(from backup)". We're about to get hit by Helene (I live in the NC mountains) so I may be offline for a while. I'd appreciate others hitting up Apple on how to fix this Sequoia upgrade problem. My Mac is essentially unusable in the current scenario.

I have a lot of files missing and hidden, from desktop and docs. Some are hidden, some are missing, some have the download icon. I have iCloud desktop and drive on. I don't use parallels.

Before I realised some were hidden, I began restoring from Time Machine, so now I have two copies of some folders...what a mess. 1000s of files, and they're so randomly scattered, I have no idea what's missing.

I have the same issue. My Desktop files were missing, I created new files, rebooted and then the new files were missing. I turned off Stacks, rebooted and now all my files are back. Fundamental flaw, this needs to be addressed immediately. Not sure I can trust macOS anymore, this should never happen.

I have been on 2 different Apple support chats/calls today for more than an hour and after searching high and low - ALL of my CLIENT files that are missing. All they were able tell me was that they highly doubted it had anything to do with the new update.

Well, all my files were there on Saturday, I didn't even open up my computer yesterday, update happened this morning and as soon as it rebooted, all files are gone. Not in icloud, not hidden anywhere I can find them, just - gone.

A FULL catalog of Lightroom - gone.

Now what?!

I really appreciate you trying to help.

I've tried the "Shift+Option+Period" and it didn't do anything. lol

I restarted it and now even the few things I was able to find and put on my desktop are missing also. 🤣🤦🏻‍♀️ (As bad as all this sounds, at least now I know it's definitely the update. I just have to figure out to get all the files back before my clients start to get ******. lol)

I'm just gonna sit back, try not to throw my laptop and restart it another million times to see what happens.

I cannot find any of my folders that are not on my desktop. All my settings are changed after software update. This is on top of my iPhone 14 Pro not having setting to turn off Private Caller. Apple is going down hill - did you layoff all the tenured developers for cheap help?

For those who are missing folders from their documents folder, it may have saved to a weird place in the icloud driv. I was able to find mine via the below path.

Go to the "Go" tab and then select "Go to Folder" and input this "iCloud drive > Text Input"

If nothing comes up then just search the desired folder via the "Go to Folder".

What is PARALLELS?

Where is the dashboard?

I have Mission Control and Launchpad.

I am angry that this was not an opt in. I FREQUENTLY use my iMac in situations where I do not have access to the Internet. This is obnoxious.

Same problem, can see the files when signing into iCloud but nothing visible on the MacBook M3. Finder says 1.7GB with 0 items? Was your problem resolved?

I was not using icloud for desktop or documents. That is why I am ******...