Documents folder replaced

Are you logged in as the user you expect to be?

Go to Finder menu -> Preferences and show the hard disk on your desktop if it isn't already.

Double click the hard disk icon.

Double click the Users folder.

The folder that has the house icon is the folder for the currently logged in user.

Check the Trash can on the Dock. You might have accidentally moved your Documents folder there.

Check the contents of the house icon to ensure it hasn't been renamed.

If you can't find it, you may need to take it in for service to see if the file can be recovered, if you didn't backup your data.

No. That won't solve a thing.

Get a copy of Devon Technologies EasyFind and try to locate a known document that is in the Documents folder on all drives.

If it finds it on the Time Machine drive, go to Apple menu -> System preferences -> Time Machine, and turn time machine off before attempting to access the file, and copy them over to your documents folder.

If you can't locate any full Documents folder with EasyFind, then you will need to bring the machine in for data recovery, or attempt to boot off a drive with Prosoft Data Rescue, or Wondershare data recovery.

Also go to http://www.icloud.com/ to verify the documents aren't hiding on your iCloud drive.

http://onedrive.live.com/ if you use Microsoft's One Drive.

http://docs.google.com/ if you use Google Docs

If neither can find the file, you'll want to take to a data recovery expert. If your machine is under AppleCare, an Authorized Apple Service provider may be able to help you.