I have a problem with the public directory I can’t find the file in my desktop but when I run the hosting setup in the terminal its said that is already existing

I have this error
Error: Directory ‘public’ for Hosting does not exist.

? File public/404.html already exists. Overwrite? No
i  Skipping write of public/404.html
? File public/index.html already exists. Overwrite? No

the firebase.json

{
“hosting”: {
“public”: “dist/”,
“ignore”: [
“firebase.json”,
“/.*”,
“/node_modules/”
],
“rewrites”: [
{
“source”: ““,
“destination”: “/index.html”
}
]
}
}

I want to publish my website using Firebase