Though I can't work out what happened, try hitting shift command D while
in the finder, and that should take you to your Desktop folder. If you
then right-click on the folder icon at the top of the window that you
now have open, you will see the path, i.e. where the folder actually is.
See if that helps get started on finding the original folders… Come
back if you get any clues.
Cheers
Jason
On 27 Oct 2020, at 12:26, Ash Smith wrote:
Hi All
I am having a nightmare with Dropbox. I activated a free trial a few
weeks ago, which has since ended.
Last week I upgraded my OS to 10.15.7
After that, I found that 3 folders - Desktop, Downloads and Documents
have all lost a number of important recent documents.
In trying to find these documents I see that the folders Desktop,
Downloads and Documents are all aliases contained within my Dropbox
folder
I am thoping that as I saved the documents in the normal way, the
originals must reside in the original folders somewhere on my Mac
But I cant find the original folders. Alls marches just lead me to the
Aliases in the Dropbox
Even right clicking the folders and selecting ‘Find Original’ just
takes me back to the Alias
I bitterly regret getting involved with Dropbox, and just want my old
Mac back
Can anybody offer any advice?
Many thanks
Ash
PS. I do Time machine back ups, but in an unrelated problem am unable
to access these at the moment
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