Lost folder & content. What happened?

I dragged a specific folder from my google drive to my desktop. Rather than preserving a copy on my google drive and writing a second copy to my desktop it just moved the whole folder to my desktop. I immediately dragged the folder back to the google drive. Unfortunately now the folder has no content in it. What happened? How can I get it back!

Thanks.

For the future, how do I make a copy to my desktop rather than drag the original to my desktop?

Hi @Andy_Gridley copying and pasting will be much efficient in the future :smile:

Have you tried looking at your trash to see if your files are here?

cc @jimperio

Thanks. I didn’t realize I could “copy/paste” files/folders to make a copy.

I checked the google drive trash and found only an empty folder. The contents are missing from the folder. Some how in the accidental transfer to my HD and then re-upload it lost all the contents of the folder.

You mention a second/temporary hidden folder. Can you please show me the hierarchy to get to this hidden folder. I can not see it on my own.

Thanks

Can you let me know your OS? It will be a hidden folder within your Insync folder.