The Desktop and Documents folders on Mac are empty. All the documents that used to show up on my Desktop are gone. I checked to make sure iCloud was properly set up, it was. I checked my MacBook to make sure the documents still exist, they do. I am running Mac OS Ventura 13.4.1c. Everything was fine until sometime this afternoon. Can anyone help me.
iMac 21.5″, macOS 12.2
If you turned off iCloud for Documents and Desktop, it created the Archive ICloud file on home drive , ICloud shows no documents on it.
It will prompt the items from this desktop and the documents folder are available in iCloud Drive , to remove items from iCloud Drive , move them to your desktop and documents folder on this Mac , click on show in finder .
Again open system preferences > iCloud > iCloud Drive > the box of desktops and documents box is unchecked , tap over the box to get it rechecked , a circle rotates setting up the box gets checked .
You will notice a folder is created literally on the desktop , tap it a pop up window appears the items on this desktop on this Mac have been moved into a new folder called “ Desktops - Apples Mac book …( the name of Mac will be written in the existing desktop folder in iCloud Drive , you can combine the contents of these folders any time , click on show in finder .
Right click on the folder created on the Mac and move to trash , restart the Mac and empty the trash , but again the documents are placed in a right place in iCloud Drive as well in iCloud server .
Get file, folder and disk information on Mac - Apple Support (IN)
By unchecking the box of desktops and documents - the files and documents created are invisible temporarily both in iCloud Drive and www.icloud.com but they are not deleted from the server and still occupying the space , you can check the box and use get info and delete the desired documents any where from iCloud Drive or iCloud.com and restart the Mac and empty the trash .
Thank you so much, I thought I lost all my files but looks like they were just left unchecked in the iCloud.
Desktop and Documents folders are empty on my Mac.
