{"id":841,"date":"2016-01-19T13:01:43","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T21:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ginastricklind.com\/?p=841"},"modified":"2017-05-27T09:47:49","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T16:47:49","slug":"mac-desktop-items-disappeared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ginastricklind.com\/mac-desktop-items-disappeared\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac Desktop Items Disappeared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the midst of the kids changing computers, and changing users because they still want to be who they were originally playing, they get a little impatient. During the last switch, I had the trackpad and one of the kids had the mouse, while I was navigating and clicking so was he. Then, suddenly, the Desktop was nice a clean and ALL the files and folders were gone. I was suddenly worried, especially because my computer is my work place. I was worried that everything had been deleted, I had no idea where it went.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out, if you right click on the on the Desktop, there\u2019s actually an option to move it <em>all<\/em> to Google Drive.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-842\" src=\"https:\/\/ginastricklind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screen-Shot-2016-01-17-at-1.16.44-PM.png\" width=\"255\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ginastricklind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screen-Shot-2016-01-17-at-1.16.44-PM.png 255w, https:\/\/ginastricklind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screen-Shot-2016-01-17-at-1.16.44-PM-80x67.png 80w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Seems risky having that ability, and that\u2019s probably why Dropbox doesn\u2019t do that.<\/p>\n<h2>How To Fix It<\/h2>\n<p>It\u2019s super simple, so just breath. In your Google Drive, you\u2019ll now likely see a new folder named \u201cDesktop\u201d. Simply drag all those items back to your desktop. That\u2019s it!<\/p>\n<p>Create a Guest account for your computer so you <em>never<\/em> have to worry about it happening again. I had not yet set up that capability when I got my new computer because I thought the kids could just play with the old one. But, in reality, they want to play on the newer one with the bigger screen. Of course ?<\/p>\n<p>Has this or something similar happened to you? Let me know if this helped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the midst of the kids changing computers, and changing users because they still want to be who they were originally playing, they get a little impatient. During the last switch, I had the trackpad and one of the kids had the mouse, while I was navigating and clicking so was he. Then, suddenly, the Desktop was nice a clean and ALL the files and folders were gone. I was suddenly worried, especially because my computer is my work place. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ginastricklind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ginastricklind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ginastricklind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginastricklind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginastricklind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ginastricklind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":847,"href":"https:\/\/ginastricklind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions\/847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ginastricklind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginastricklind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginastricklind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}