all icons on disappeared

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DrewR1987 Author

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all icons on disappeared

All the icons disappeared on my desktop yesterday. They were there when I closed the lid of my Macbook Pro. When I came back to my laptop later, and i opened the lid all my icons were gone. Also I checked my iCloud in system preferences and in my iCloud Drive. Desktop &Document Folders was checked and Optimized Mac Storage was checked. I'm not one who likes to save things to iCloud. I have unchecked both boxes, but nothing has come back. When I check the iCloud Drive tab in finder, and click desktop nothing is there. How do I get my icons back? I did a restore from a back I did a few days ago. Nothing went back to the way it was prior to the icons disappearing.

MacBook Pro, macOS High Sierra (10.13.6)

Posted on Sep 5, 2018 5:34 AM

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Answer 1

Sep 5, 2018 7:14 AM in response to DrewR1987

Hmm. and a Restart did not sort it.

Finder>Force Quit>Finder>Relaunch

This is the fundamental first step. If no resolve continue:

Finder>Preferences>General verify Desktop items

Turn off Desktop & Documents: Add your Desktop and Documents files to iCloud Drive - Apple Support

When you turn off Desktop and Documents, your files stay in iCloud Drive and a new folder is created on your Mac.

Move files from iCloud Drive to your Mac.

Select all of your files and drag them to the place you want to keep them.

Mac > System Preferences > iCloud.
Next to iCloud Drive, click Options.
Deselect Desktop & Documents Folders.
Click Done.

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Answer 2

Eric Root

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Sep 5, 2018 8:00 AM in response to DrewR1987

From the article leroy posted a link to.

Turn off Desktop and Documents

When you turn off Desktop & Documents Folders, your files stay in iCloud Drive and a new Desktop and Documents folder is created on your Mac in the home folder. You can move files from iCloud Drive to your Mac as you need them, or select all of your files and drag them to the place you want to keep them.

From your Mac, go to Apple menu > System Preferences > iCloud.
Next to iCloud Drive, click Options.
Deselect Desktop & Documents Folders.
Click Done.

If you turn off iCloud Drive or sign out of iCloud, you have the option to keep a local copy of your files that are in iCloud Drive. Whether you decide to keep a local copy or not, a new Desktop and Documents folder is created in your home folder. If you choose to keep a local copy, your files in iCloud Drive are copied to a folder called iCloud Drive (Archive) in your home folder. Then you have the option to move any files that were in your iCloud Desktop and Documents, back to your new local Desktop and Documents.

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