Everything disappears, except for local drives. Weird. I have to open Finder to have them pop back on the desktop.
Um, a 'feature'?
Um, a 'feature'?
what's happening? do you have docs & desktop on icloud, or on your mac? if folder contents are disappearing... try moving those folders to your docs folder (you can always put an alias for them on the desktop.Oh, not the contents of folders is disappearing too. I have to click on something in the left tool bar to get it back. Yikes...
what's happening? do you have docs & desktop on icloud, or on your mac? if folder contents are disappearing... try moving those folders to your docs folder (you can always put an alias for them on the desktop.
need more info, hard to gauge what's going on for you. also... have you rebooted?...
this is happening in your Documents folder? just want to be sure i understand...Just Documents folder, to my knowledge. I rebooted after the update. The folder that had the contents disappear/reappear isn't on iCloud either. Is this symptom related to iCloud for folders? Yikes...
something related to the monitoring setup..? anyway, if they're just aliases, you are not, at least, in danger of losing actual files...
try changing some of the desktop view options, see if that fixes anything...
I can certainly relate to how perturbing this is. I experienced this a few months ago, I cannot remember exactly how long ago, and was greatly relieved when I clicked on the desktop and they all came back again. I have never experienced this since. This won't be any use for you other than for whatever reason this has happened to someone else before, totally unexpectedly and unexplained, and with me also not having done anything unusual or different to normal. All the best with getting through this.Everything disappears, except for local drives. Weird. I have to open Finder to have them pop back on the desktop.
Um, a 'feature'?
I can certainly relate to how perturbing this is. I experienced this a few months ago, I cannot remember exactly how long ago, and was greatly relieved when I clicked on the desktop and they all came back again. I have never experienced this since. This won't be any use for you other than for whatever reason this has happened to someone else before, totally unexpectedly and unexplained, and with me also not having done anything unusual or different to normal. All the best with getting through this.
edit: I think I might have actually done a restart for them to all come back - it was a while ago
The happened to me again just now. All the icons on the desktop except for various drives disappeared, clicking on various things did nothing but a restart has things back to normal. This would have been more perturbing if it had not been for this recent exchange about this.And I clicked Finder, as I remember, to get things back. Weird...
The happened to me again just now. All the icons on the desktop except for various drives disappeared, clicking on various things did nothing but a restart has things back to normal. This would have been more perturbing if it had not been for this recent exchange about this.
I'm having an alternate problem. Stuff is just randomly re-appearing on the desktop after I move it elsewhere. I save a file to the desktop. Edit it in some manner. Drag it to its eventual home. The file moves and then 10-15 seconds later the file re-appears on the desktop. I did a reboot earlier and it stopped for a couple of hours, but it's back now.
Anybody else see this? I updated to 13.3 last week and saw no issues like this after the update. Everything just started this morning after a reboot, which was done to try and get my screensaver working again (which did die post 13.3 update).
I don't use iCloud but after my last experience I noticed a prompt to start using iCloud so that obviously raises my suspicions there. I have had that prompt before so that may have been when it happened before.I think I've seen that with a folder I have set to iCloud. It seems to stutter if there are some unknown (to me) network issues. I thought they were related to the great disappearing desktop, but it's not set for iCloud. I am so grateful that it's not destructive, yet. But iCloud tripping out like that seems to make me think I'd not want to use it?
I have issues with Mail, where messages I've deleted seem to hang in the folder for extended amounts of time. And if I try to delete them, the only option is undelete, and if I refresh the folder, they sometines disappear, but often don't go away until I shutdown Mail and restart it. *shrug* Maybe it IS iCloud doing this for everyone. (Nice feature)
I think I've seen that with a folder I have set to iCloud. It seems to stutter if there are some unknown (to me) network issues. I thought they were related to the great disappearing desktop, but it's not set for iCloud. I am so grateful that it's not destructive, yet. But iCloud tripping out like that seems to make me think I'd not want to use it?
I have issues with Mail, where messages I've deleted seem to hang in the folder for extended amounts of time. And if I try to delete them, the only option is undelete, and if I refresh the folder, they sometines disappear, but often don't go away until I shutdown Mail and restart it. *shrug* Maybe it IS iCloud doing this for everyone. (Nice feature)
Just as an update, 13.3.1 seems to have fixed whatever bug was doing that.
Been using iCloud since launch. Never had any issue with data loss. This was the first time a bug had popped up that even remotely involved it, but I think it had more to do with how the OS was moving files and how it was registering that with iCloud for the file sync than anything else. Either way, I'm glad it's resolved.
Truly weird - I guess I am lucky that I have had it happen only twice. I typically have only very standard Apple apps running.AND...
It happened today: Working on the second screen, and caught it out of the corner of my eye: *POOF* only drives. Weird, and not fixed.
Not sure what was running, and I'd imagine that if Activity Monitor was running it wouldn't happen. (Quantum mechanics and all)
The problem is that Apple has introduced a new way to do something (hide windows) that previously required a very specific section, and this new way is very easy to do unintentionally and is the default.Thank you Mike. I'll try your advice. I do have a trackpad and I am running Sonoma on a 27" 2019 iMac.