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I was comlpeting the dropbox instructions to connect my phone to my computer, when all of a sudden the folders started disappearing from my desktop. Now I cannot find them anywhere, not even on the hard-drive. Is there any way of recovering that? I keep all my folders that have projects I am currently working on, on the desktop so I can easily find them, and file them away when I am done. That means all my work in progress is gone. I tried recovering with Time Machine but found it turned off! What happened? Is there a virus in the dropbox software? how could it just delete all my files. Any suggestions? Please!!!
Take a look in your User folder > Desktop Folder and see if they show up.
@Jeanette - Are you sure you have logged in on the correct user account? I’ve done that where I had two accounts with similar names on the system. If you only have one account setup on the system it sounds like you have some drive corruption issues. You may want to first make a fresh backup (don’t overright or append your current backup). Then, using a bootable disk run disk diagnostics to see if the drive is OK. If not, it maybe time for a new drive.
