Where's my desktop files?

i saved some files last night that i wanted to work on the next day. i saved word and excel files on the desktop and shut down the computer.
the next day, i checked my serial number and removed the battery so i can confirm my warranty coverage. apparently, when i turned on my machine, my files are gone. where are they? what did i do wrong here?
hope you can help. thanks

every user account has a different desktop folder. did you sign in to the same account? try doing a spotlight search to see if the somehow got saved to another location on the hard drive.
good luck.
dak

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[3} "Business account" simply refers to the size of my Dropbox. I'm a one man band, no one else accesses it.
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[3] gottit Interesting - leads us to suspect #[1] is perpetrator.
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[0] BLAST OFF !! It is clear that the files/folders on Dropbox disappeared first. MacDropAny then synced that fact. We are back to
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