Folder disappears after dragging it into "All My Files" in Finder

I've just tried to repeat what you did, the folder ended up in the Documents folder. Instead of using locate it might be easier to use the search functionality included in the Finder directly (or Spotlight) to look for it.


All approaches listed so far rely on some sort of database or cache. You may want to search the filesystem itself:

find ~ -name Folder1

As LCC suggested, I would use find. However I would start in the root of the volume, on the off chance that it ended up somewhere strange outside of your Home directory.

sudo find / -name Folder1 2>/dev/null

The 2>/dev/null portion of the command line redirects stderr to /dev/null so you don't get spammed with complaints about devices and directories you don't have permission to access.