The Documents folder on my Mac (macOS Sierra 10.12 beta) is not visible under my user in Finder. I can see the folder is there through Terminal
But in Finder, I can't see it:
I can see the folder in Finder under iCloud Drive:
Please help.
MacOS – Documents folder not visible in Finder on macOS
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Related Solutions
First, make an alias to the ~/Library/Mobile Documents folder. Then, drag the alias to the sidebar.
- While in the Finder, go to the "Finder" menu and select "Preferences".
- From the "General" tab, place a check next to "Hard disks" -- this will make your hard drive visible on the Desktop.
- From the "Sidebar" tab under "Devices" again place a check next to "Hard disks" -- this will put your hard drive in the sidebar of any finder window, and should also add it to "Open", "Save", and "Save As..." dialog sheets (as well as others)
If you are an administrator on the computer you should have no trouble adding files and folders to the root directory (/)
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Best Answer
This is a new feature in macOS Sierra. It allows you to put Desktop and Documents folder in iCloud Drive so you can access it in all of your Mac connected to that account and even iOS devices. You can disable it by pressing Apple Menu -> About this Mac, then go to storage and click Manage under Macintosh HD( or the name of your macOS partition) then in the iCloud part you can turn that feature off.