I wish I had a live machine infront of me to check this on before I make a fool of myself, but something I’ve experienced in the past is having a folder on your Desktop named the same as a mounted volume. In Finder, you’ll see /Volumes/Music, and /Users/Someone/Desktop/Music is unreachable. By Terminal, /Users/Someone/Desktop/Music is right there, but looks perfectly natural (you see it on your desktop, you see it in ~/desktop .. no alarm bells).
I wish I had a live machine infront of me to check this on before I make a fool of myself, but something I’ve experienced in the past is having a folder on your Desktop named the same as a mounted volume. In Finder, you’ll see /Volumes/Music, and /Users/Someone/Desktop/Music is unreachable. By Terminal, /Users/Someone/Desktop/Music is right there, but looks perfectly natural (you see it on your desktop, you see it in ~/desktop .. no alarm bells).