Finder not showing documents folder under user

Question

In finder, if I click user (my name) in left column, in the right column it no longer shows the document folder.
If I click on documents in the left column, they display, and show the path as (my name)/documents (I think I have that turned on in preferences).
In other words, documents is where it should be, just not showing up in finder under user (my name).
What is going on?
bob

Answer 1

It's possible that the invisible bit got set. Most often it gets set, and no one knows why, on drives. But I've seen it get set for folders as well (although having it set on the Documents folder is, I think, a new one). If this the case and you have the Path item in the window toolbar, when you select it with the the Documents folder open, you will see that the Docs folder icon in the list looks greyish compared to the other items. Even if you aren't sure whether this is the problem, you can run this Terminal command:
chflags nohidden ~/Documents
Launch Terminal from your Utilities folder, copy and paste the above line, and press the Return key. If the invisible bit got set, that will fix it. If that isn't the problem, then nothing will happen. The command might fix it, and it won't harm anything at all.
Francine
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