I deleted my dropbox and it deleted my desktop and documents folders. How can i restore them?

[awilson576]

Hi everyone, 

I downgraded my Dropbox account, and because it had been syncing my desktop and documents folders, I was over the storage limit for the free account. 

I tried to follow the help centre instructions to remove the backups, but i didnt have the same options on my laptop as were shown on the screenshots. 

So, i removed the dropbox app. Still no joy. So i deleted my dropbox account. 

Now my Desktop and Documents folders are missing, along with all their contents. WTF?

Any help greatly appreciated. 

[awilson576 · Accepted solution]

nevermind, i did a force quit of Finder and it fixed the Desktop issue

[Walter]

We're glad to hear you're back up and running @awilson576 

See you around the Community and have a lovely week ahead!