Attempted to burn, folder went poof. What happened and where is it?
I had a folder called Documents with many files. I wanted to save it on a disc. When I dragged the folder to the disc on the desktop it went poof -- gone. Gone from my home folder. Gone from my hard drive. Fortunately, all on LaCie, and all in Word program. I resurrected the folder by using LaCie. But now I'm wondering, what did I do wrong and where is the original Document folder?
Many thanks.
Elaine .... You did not state where you draged the Document folder from.... I am assuming you dragged from the Dock and it went poof !!!!
The Document folder should be here...
/Users/(your user name)/Documents
george
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