There is a question mark on My Documents folder. Not sure what happened. Please help! Thanks

There is a question mark over My Documents on the sidebar.
Not sure what happened to the folder.
How can I restore it?
Thanks!

You can try dragging that alias off the sidebar (command-key) and drag a new one from your user folder into place. 

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    There is a question mark on my hard drive disk, how do I get rid of it. I recently went to the genius bar in Albuquerque, NM and they restarted it and did a partition on it and what I needed was fixed but I still have a  question mark on my start up disk.

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