Lost desktop

[petavius]

Hi

It would appear that I accidentally moved my desktop folder into my music folder at some stage in the past week. As my desktop icons were still sitting on my desktop, I thought I'd just move the desktop folder back into my home directory. However, now my desktop icons have disappeared. I guess I need to tell the OS to look for my desktop folder in ~/, rather than in ~/Music, which is where I must've put it the other day by accident (did I really do this? Or is there another way it could've ended up in there?!).

Any help appreciated!

Cheers

 

[johnfkitchen]

If you run in an Admin account, you can do all sorts of damage. Better to run in a Standard account. Could this explain the accident?

 

[petavius]

I don't think so - I have to enter a password to do real damage to my system so I would have noticed doing something daft like that if it required root privileges. Either the OS let me do it without root privileges, or something fishy is going on.

 

[Hansr]

You should have full privs to you home folder except for a few things that go into ~/Library/ where some items are placed with explicit permissions to not allow write access.

There is nothing to do with the folder, just move it back.

 

[petavius]

I have moved it back, but the items that I see listed in the directory (both in the finder, and by $> ls ~/Desktop) don't appear on the actual desktop (i.e. if I remove/minimise all my windows, my desktop still has a pretty photo but no files in it. I can't drag files onto my desktop either... It's as though the OS doesn't know where the Desktop folder is.