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MacOS Finder windows reverting from Dropbox folders to root directory
I have an M1 Mini (OS 14.3) with two monitors, and since I'm always working on multiple projects, each with its own folder, I keep Finder windows open for each of them, some on different deskt...
A backup app like Carbon Copy Cloner can save Finder's "Saved Application State" folder on a schedule (daily, hourly, or whatever you choose), but good luck parsing the contents.
Finder's "GO" menu has a "recent folders" option that might prove useful, but I don't know how it defines "recent"... i.e. whether a folder opened several days ago and simply left open will be "recent".
(1) I have Default Folder X and it has a feature called "recently closed" folders. Strangely, it list correctly all the windows that were closed, even the ones that haven't been visited in months. So somehow apps like Default Folder is able to tell that these windows are closed, and I'm mainly using this to recover my lost windows.
(2) I looked into Carbon Copy Cloner and they don't back up the "Saved Application State" folder by default either, because Apple has recommended that they don't back up this folder automatically. It looks like the only way to do it is manually setting up CCC, or use a chron job. It f*cking infuriates me that Apple doesn't make it easy for me to backup and recover from saved application states, even though MacOS has become more and more unstable over the years. If your OS keeps crashing, then at least make it easy for your users to recover from the crash.
(3) FWIW, another strange thing I noticed is that links to folders inside Drobox that are pinned to my Finder's sidebar menu (where it list favorites), were also removed when Finder exited from all Dropbox folder windows. It seems that Finder really thought these folders disappeared.
CCC is very easy to customize. (I use it to back up - i.e., actually save) MS Word's otherwise-near-useless auto-save "recovery" files.)
I think the folders do "disappear" from Finder's view ... or at least the links to the DB folders vanish. (The DB equivalent of an alias losing track of of its target.)
