Desktop items missing and cannot access Finder after Jan updates
All desktop items disappeared following the restart after updates on 25 Jan to my MacBook. I also cannot click on the desktop to access Finder. I cannot drag anything onto the desktop.
Any ideas how to recover from this? Ta.
Thanks for the feedback. Moving preference files associated with various applications, such as desktop, out of /Users/username/Library/Preferences/ to the Desktop, logging out and back in, will cause the application to create a new default version. If that fixes the problem, then the original preference file (e.g., com.apple.desktop.plist) was most likely corrupted. Good computing.
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