I have at least two external drives that I use for Time Machine backups and another for "clone" backups, for each computer. That seems odd because external drives are so inexpensive nowadays. Ive used daisydisk for years with no issues, the only difference this time is that Dropbox seems to have intrinsically linked itself to my downloads folder and so by deleting residual Dropbox files from my computer it's taken the downloads folder with it, which if anything is a fault of Dropbox. Surely there's a way to create a new downloads folder recognised by the system as a 'downloads' folder in the same way it normally is? Or even a way to reset finder to the preinstalled folders? Seems like a seriously huge oversight if not.
I can't use time machine because I don't own an external hard drive large enough to backup to. I also tried out the data recovery software from MiniTools but I still couldn't find the deleted folder.Īfter this I did some more digging and found out how to use the Terminal to check for the downloads directory and delete the alias and then create a replacement folder (using the command "mkdir ~/Downloads" in case anyone is reading this in the future) which solved my problem and I now have a functioning downloads folder again. I checked my dropbox account like you suggested and it did have a backup of the files in my downloads from when I uninstalled it so I recovered a couple of files I wanted, however this didnt fix my issue of missing the downloads directory that automatically contains all downloaded items. But because I had uninstalled it there was no warning of course, so I just assumed it would be fine to delete as I didn't particularly need any of the files it had backed up. I then uninstalled Dropbox the other day as I don't use it and when clearing space with daisydisk I didn't know that my whole downloads folder would still be nested somewhere in the Dropbox folder instead of being in its usual location. In regards to blaming Dropbox, I realise that I am the one that pressed delete on a file titled 'dropbox', what I meant was that when I installed Dropbox the other week it specifically requested access to my downloads folder to backup as it wasn't in my icloud, and that when doing this, unbeknownst to me, it must have moved my downloads folder into the dropbox folder.
I only have a MacBook in the first place as it was a gift. I appreciate the value of having external drives to hold back ups, I just cannot afford to lose £40 out of my budget at the moment for a drive that will only be useful maybe a few times a year at most, as any particularly important files I have are backed up in icloud.
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