Osxfuse: Desktop has disappeared

[Adam-Shaw]

So I'm not that experienced with this sort of thing, but I was trying to set up sshfs on my mac (El Capitan). I accidentally mounted onto my desktop, i.e. I tried to do "sshfs username@server:/transfer /Users/Ansible/Desktop", and hit enter to early before I had completed the file location. I then received the error
"
mount_osxfuse: mount point /Users/Ansible/Desktop is itself on a OSXFUSE volume
fuse: failed to mount file system: Invalid argument
"
Long story short, now my Desktop folder has disappeared from the file system. Is there anything I can do to recover? I can provide more information as necessary. Thanks

[bfleischer]

You simply need to unmount the sshfs volume. Try running

umount  /Users/Ansible/Desktop

in Terminal. You can get a list of all mounts by running

in Terminal.

[Adam-Shaw]

No luck. Got the following response:
[~]$ umount /Users/Ansible/Desktop
umount(/Users/Ansible/Desktop): Resource busy -- try 'diskutil unmount'

Mount shows:
username@server:/transfer on /Users/Ansible/Desktop (osxfuse, nodev, nosuid, synchronous, mounted by Ansible)

[Adam-Shaw]

Is it safe to try diskutil unmount? I know it may seem like a basic question, I just don't want to screw something up even more.

[bfleischer]

Yes, its safe to run

diskutil unmount /Users/Ansible/Desktop

Don't worry, your data is not lost. The sshfs mount "hides" the contents of your Desktop, that's all. If diskutil does not work try rebooting your Mac.

[Adam-Shaw]

Diskutil returned:
"Unmount failed for /Users/Ansible/Desktop"
I'll try rebooting and see what happens. Thanks so much for your quick responses!

[Adam-Shaw]

Rebooting worked. Thanks so much!

[bfleischer]

You are welcome.

[frankanneveld]

Without reboot you can do :

diskutil unmount force /Users/Ansible/Desktop