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deborahoakandlorestudios
New member | Level 2
3 years ago

Cannot access my desktop

Hi! I have a mac. One day I came on and all my desktop icons disapeered. Once I went to finder>desktop it said that I no longer had permission to access this. After lengthly conversations with Appl...
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Nancy
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3 years ago

Sorry to hear about your experience, deborahoakandlorestudios. 

 

As a first step, can you send me a screenshot of what you see here?

 

Also, have you perhaps followed these steps to disable computer backup on your Dropbox app? 

 

Let me know.

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