spaces - duplicating desktop items, per space ?

Hello,

Im wanting to start using spaces.
When i click the '+' symbol to create another space, all the times on my desktop are duplicated over onto thats second space, an third etc.

So i went into preferences, mission control, and toggled the 'displays have separate spaces' checkbox ...

but its not doing what i want lol ...

Im wanting to create a separate space, but without duplicating the first one, is this possible ?

Many thanks in advance

stuart

 

thank you for quick reply,

yes i the icons, i.e... i created a folder on desktop1, swiped across to desktop2, and the same folder was their -

i think I've done something though ? > before i was able to have a folder on desktop 1..... and create a serrate folder on desktop 2....

ie... have different folder, files for each desktop

many thasnks