Finder displays additional folders in Documents

[ArPe]

After upgrading to Big Sur the finder displays additional folders in my ~/Documents folder, which seems to be copies or links to folders of applications in ~/Library/Containers. The folders are only shown in the finder, not in the terminal. The can not be deleted or moved.

Does anybody know, how to get rid of these folders, I do not want my Documents folder to be cluttered by Apple...

Thanks for your help!

Alwis

I’m bumping this for you.

I keep getting a Library folder appearing in my home/Documents folder.

I delete it and it comes back after a while. It’s an empty folder that points to containers. Very annoying.

I know my system is clean and I only use safe apps.

 

[Blowback]

I’m bumping this for you.

I keep getting a Library folder appearing in my home/Documents folder.

I delete it and it comes back after a while. It’s an empty folder that points to containers. Very annoying.

I know my system is clean and I only use safe apps.

Just noticed this myself...all the folders are empty ????

 

[Alwis]

Meanwhile I am not sure if this is a bug or intended by Apple, maybe the „we know how you should use your Mac“, I would nit be surprise.

But setting the hidden flag, as described in post #25 solved the issue for me. It is not ideal, but a workaround I can live with.

 

[MilaM]

Why Apple, why 😭.

I'm going to just unistall all the Apps that are now polluting the Documents folder. Won't be possible with QuickTime and TextEdit. But at least I will have my Documents folder back.

 

[posguy99]

You know, I've read through the whole thread, and all I get out of it is people who who think they should enable Desktop and Documents in iCloud, but don't know what it means.

 

[Alwis]

You know, I've read through the whole thread, and all I get out of it is people who who think they should enable Desktop and Documents in iCloud, but don't know what it means.

I have not enabled any of this and I had these additional folders until I set the hidden flag.

Apple should not pollute directories the user is supposed to place its own data into. Beside that I think organizing data by application is s real bad idea...

 

[makj]

Unfortunately this not only hides ~/Documents but also the original location. But I guess this the best solution we have until Apple removes this silly feature.