Are you able to log into dropbox.com <http://dropbox.com/> and search for the files there? _ Regards Sam Mullen
+44 (0)7747778022 <tel://+447747778022> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> www.macambulance.com <http://www.macambulance.com/> MacAmbulance Ltd. Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, registration number 8466597 This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender and delete the email immediately. > On 27 Oct 2020, at 18:09, 'Jason Davies' via Sussex Mac User Group > <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/E813C126-9F20-45BF-95E9-FD18BA5AF897%40gmail.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/E813C126-9F20-45BF-95E9-FD18BA5AF897%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. > > > Cheers, > > Jason > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/13302B46-1C30-42AC-9630-33FC4D4608E2%40me.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/13302B46-1C30-42AC-9630-33FC4D4608E2%40me.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/BDC03CA9-51A0-4C66-A23C-CC30BE5E7FD4%40macambulance.com.
