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I think somehow Server.app screwed up my ~/Downloads folder after I tried to share it over the network and fudged with permissions and now I can't open it at all.

The weird thing is the folder is owned by my user and has the right permissions seemingly. It also only shows up under ls if I sudo, otherwise it is invisible.

I've tried:

  • Rebooting
  • Removing the share and changing permissions
  • Repairing disk permissions using Disk Utility

Ultimately I avoided the issue by by sudo mv everything out into Downloads2 and sudo rm -rf Downloads then renaming Downloads2. How can I prevent or properly fix this if it happens in the future?

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