While normal use of my MacBook I noticed folders and files were disappearing from my Desktop. I was connected to a public (no password) WiFi. I disconnected and shut down the machine, rebooted and have not connected to WiFi since. No further files were lost.
I am using iCloud Drive, but without the option to optimise storage. Now, however, I can not access any of the Documents on Desktop. They show the little cloud symbol indicating that files are available on iCloud but not locally. I also realized, that when I log in to iCloud through the browser on another machine, all my documents are still there (incl. the ones that seemingly disappeared locally).
I checked the trash bin – nothing there. Opening a new terminal does show som suspicious activity. Some commands I found by just clicking the “up” button included:
nano a.c(or similar file)sudo apt-get gccApplications/SomeApp/Contents; exit;or similar
I did not find any rm commands that would indicate file deletion.
- Does anyone have a clue what has happened and triggered this behavior? Is this a software bug, a hack, user error,…?
- Are there any steps that I can take to diagnose this further?
