Accidentally Deleted Desktop Folders

[robo44]

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Hi all I was messing around with terminal earlier as I could not empty the trash. I don't know what I have done but all my desktop folders have disappeared. If I search the hard drive the folders are empty ie desktop documents etc. is there anything I can do to get them back ?
Thanks in advance.

 

[driftless]

Time Machine?

 

[redheeler]

Yes, as already mentioned the only way to get them back is likely to restore from backup.

Duplicate post in your other thread:

That's why it's never a good idea to mess around in Terminal unless you know what you're doing. If you were using the rm command the files/folders could be permanently deleted.

For future reference, to delete all files in the trash through Terminal, press Command-A while in the Trash folder and drag them over to Terminal after typing the rm -rf command.

 

[robo44]

oh dear

The command was

$ cd ~/.Trash && rm -rf *

But i must of done it wrong somehow

 

[blueroom]

Do you have a backup, i.e. Time Machine?

 

[robo44]

No I never got round to setting it up but I will now.