Can't access desktop items or downloads folder after High Sierra update

Hi, thanks. I just turned it on and it took me to preferences and desktop was the only option not checked, so I enabled that and it took me to a pop up screen telling me to upgrade to a 0.79p a month storage option. I have bought it anyway to see if I can find my files, if not I can always cancel it, although I don't really need this as my macbook has 120GB free. I think the missing files were maybe 10GB at most. It is all stuff that is backed up, barring a few smaller, recent files, but it's the pain of sifting through drives to get it all back in one place.

Yes, I have just upgraded to a 0.79p a month plan and it gave me my data back. Seems quite a poor way to do things, especially as there's no mention of this before or during the update.

Anyway, it's fixed now, thanks.

This is really odd.

If I go to the desktop through finder, it is empty. If I search for the files manually, they come up, and the path shows them as on the desktop, but they are not there.

Any idea why this would be? Thanks.

Thanks. I turned off icloud and it asked if I wanted to leave a copy of the icloud files, so I said yes and it's taken till now to complete, about 25GB. icloud drive off and no files in documents or desktop. If I turn it back on, it then tries to go through the whole process again.

So now, I have the desktop back, downloads back, but documents is empty. Aaargh!

So now all my data is back where it should be. So this is Apple's own ransomware?

Thanks for the help 🙂

Actually, all the files are back, but not the stuff from the desktop. That's the stuff that I really could do with recovering.

/Users/Me/Desktop