Can't see desktop downloads/saves

Greetings all - I just had the hard drive in my 3 yr old iMac replaced and am trying to get the machine back to its previous state. But when I download apps off the web, life Firefox for example, I don't see them on the desktop, even though Safari says downloads will go to the desktop. Also, as a test I tried saving a TextEdit doc to the desktop, and it doesn't show up either. If I open a Finder window & click on Desktop, it appears empty. However, if I go to some app and click Open, as though I were trying to open a doc, and then click Desktop to locate that doc, then I see all kinds of stuff that I've downloaded or saved to the desktop. So those desktop items do exist, but they're just not visible on the desktop. Any ideas? I didn't see any discussions similar to this. Thanks

Hi kgny
In Finder Preferences, check that you have New Finder Windows Open, and have selected an actual location, usually set as Home, then I'd suggest you try trashing the Finder's property list files and see if that restores things.
Locate these two files in ~/Library/Preferences and trash them.
com.apple.finder.plist
com.apple.sidebarlists.plist
To re-establish them, log out and log back in again.
You will need to reset your finder and sidebar as you had them before.
By the way, in the Firefox Preferences > Main there is the screen where you can set the downloads location for Firefox.
regards roam

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