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swimmerzero Author

Level 1

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Documents folder hidden from Finder

I turned on iCloud Documents and Desktop sync on a brand new MacBook Pro and waited for the sync to finish. The Desktop synced fine, but the Documents folder seems to have a problem. If I click on the Documents icon in the sidebar, nothing happens. It literally keeps displaying whatever was in the window before I clicked. If I manually navigate to my home folder, I don't see a Documents folder. If I try to create a Documents folder, it says that the name is already in use. If I go to the terminal, I can list all of the files in my Documents folder as expected. I tried running chflags 0 ~/Documents in the terminal to clear any flags that may have been on that folder, but it didn't change anything.

What do I have to do to see my Documents folder?

MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 12.0

Posted on Oct 27, 2021 6:33 AM

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Luis Sequeira1

Level 9

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Posted on Oct 27, 2021 7:20 AM

Click iCloud Drive in a Finder window Sidebar. Since you elected to have Documents & Desktop in iCloud, that's where your Documents folder resides now.

I suggest you then drag the Documents folder itself to the Sidebar, for quick access.

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