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Catalina - now files gone

Upgraded to Catalina on Nov. 10. Most files went into recents. Just checked again cause I wanted to start moving them and now they are all gone. I have lost about 5oo gigs from my hard drive. What is going on?

Mac mini, macOS 10.15

Posted on Dec 17, 2019 9:27 PM

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Posted on Dec 18, 2019 7:31 AM

Recents is a search folder. Nothing is stored in there. It shows the "recently used" files, but they are still stored wherever they were.


You may have allowed Desktop & Documents in iCloud Drive to enable. If so, your Desktop and Documents folders will show up in iCloud Drive in the Sidebar.

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Catalina - now files gone

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