Ghost document on iCloud desktop

[Lynda Chiotti]

I keep seeing a PDF I have repeatedly deleted reappearing on my desktop. It seems to appear randomly, i.e., not after every reboot. It appears to live on the iCloud desktop. Any ideas?

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[David Abramowitz]

What’s the name of it?

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[Lynda Chiotti]

cloth-texture.pdf

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[David Abramowitz]

See the attached screenshot. In your iCloud settings, specifically in iCloud Drive, do you have Desktop syncing checked?

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[Ronald Newby]

David,

I’m not seeing the view shown in your screenshot…might that be because I am still on Monterey?

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[Lynda Chiotti]

Yes, I sync desktop and documents for both Macs.

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[Chita Hunter]

Do you by chance use Google Drive?

What macOS are you on?

• This reply was modified 4 weeks, 1 day ago by  Chita Hunter.

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[Lynda Chiotti]

Both Macs are on Sonoma. I have two accounts using Google Drive.

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[Chita Hunter]

Might a Google Drive setting be syncing that file back to your Mac desktop?

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[Lynda Chiotti]

I don’t use Google Drive to sync any desktop or documents folders.

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