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Where is the iCloud folder with Documents and Desktop?
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1841513" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>That is, if those are all the folders in your home folder, not really a possible situation. What you see on the desktop is just what is shown in the Desktop folder of your home directory. No Desktop folder, no desktop. That is simply not possible, AFAIK. The bottom line is cut off. I can see you are on the boot drive, Users folder and in your Home directory (I see the house) but are you possibly in another subfolder inside your Home folder? You are also missing the Documents folder, but that one is not so critical and can be moved without system issues, although it will generate an error by any application that expects it as a location for something to be saved. </p><p></p><p>You said you thought Documents and Desktop were in the iCloud Drive folder. And you said it might be encrypted. What makes you think that? Creation of the iCloud Drive does not hide, encrypt or otherwise change either Documents or Desktop folders, but gets added to the Home folder as its own location. Did you manually move Documents and/or Desktop to iCloud Drive and then encrypt or hide it? </p><p></p><p>About the only thing I can think of at this point is to get Find Any File and let it hunt for these folders for you, setting it up to look for hidden files. If you have multiple accounts, be aware that each account has its own Documents folder and its own Desktop folder.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1841513, member: 396914"] That is, if those are all the folders in your home folder, not really a possible situation. What you see on the desktop is just what is shown in the Desktop folder of your home directory. No Desktop folder, no desktop. That is simply not possible, AFAIK. The bottom line is cut off. I can see you are on the boot drive, Users folder and in your Home directory (I see the house) but are you possibly in another subfolder inside your Home folder? You are also missing the Documents folder, but that one is not so critical and can be moved without system issues, although it will generate an error by any application that expects it as a location for something to be saved. You said you thought Documents and Desktop were in the iCloud Drive folder. And you said it might be encrypted. What makes you think that? Creation of the iCloud Drive does not hide, encrypt or otherwise change either Documents or Desktop folders, but gets added to the Home folder as its own location. Did you manually move Documents and/or Desktop to iCloud Drive and then encrypt or hide it? About the only thing I can think of at this point is to get Find Any File and let it hunt for these folders for you, setting it up to look for hidden files. If you have multiple accounts, be aware that each account has its own Documents folder and its own Desktop folder. [/QUOTE]
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