I am running F12 on a desktop machine. Today all of a sudden I noticed that all the non-hidden files in my home directory have disappeared. Along with the others, Documents, Desktop, Music, etc. directories have disappeared.
In addition I cannot recreate a Desktop directory which has the magic property of displaying its contents on the Desktop in Gnome. Instead all files put in my home directory appear on the desktop.
In a directory belonging to another user this Desktop file retains this property.
Removing the .gnome* and ,gconf directories and logging again does not help.
Any help out there? -- ======================================================================= Woman: "Is Yoo-Hoo hyphenated?" Yogi Berra: "No, ma'am, its not even carbonated." ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@sbcglobal.net
On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 15:40 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
I am running F12 on a desktop machine. Today all of a sudden I noticed that all the non-hidden files in my home directory have disappeared. Along with the others, Documents, Desktop, Music, etc. directories have disappeared.
Do you mean you can't see them or they have actually been deleted? IOW can you see them from the Shell?
poc
On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 21:10 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 15:40 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
I am running F12 on a desktop machine. Today all of a sudden I noticed that all the non-hidden files in my home directory have disappeared. Along with the others, Documents, Desktop, Music, etc. directories have disappeared.
Do you mean you can't see them or they have actually been deleted? IOW can you see them from the Shell?
poc
You can't see them from the shell or the iconic view. Their gone. -- ======================================================================= Pause for storage relocation. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@sbcglobal.net
On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 06:22 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 21:10 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 15:40 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
I am running F12 on a desktop machine. Today all of a sudden I noticed that all the non-hidden files in my home directory have disappeared. Along with the others, Documents, Desktop, Music, etc. directories have disappeared.
In addition I cannot recreate a Desktop directory which has the magic
property of displaying its contents on the Desktop in Gnome. Instead all files put in my home directory appear on the desktop.
Look, I understand how by making a stupid command choice I could remove all the files in my home directory but how do you cause all the non-hidden files in you home directory to appear on you desktop? On top of that files in the Desktop directory do not appear on the desktop (only the Desktop directory itself appears).
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On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 08:04 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 06:22 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 21:10 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 15:40 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
I am running F12 on a desktop machine. Today all of a sudden I noticed that all the non-hidden files in my home directory have disappeared. Along with the others, Documents, Desktop, Music, etc. directories have disappeared.
In addition I cannot recreate a Desktop directory which has the magic
property of displaying its contents on the Desktop in Gnome. Instead all files put in my home directory appear on the desktop.
Look, I understand how by making a stupid command choice I could remove all the files in my home directory but how do you cause all the non-hidden files in you home directory to appear on you desktop? On top of that files in the Desktop directory do not appear on the desktop (only the Desktop directory itself appears).
I wanted to make the gnome-terminal that is opened by nautilus-open-terminal to open in my home directory instead of the Desktop. So I clicked in the Configuration-Editor on: app->nautilus->preferences->Desktop_is_Home_Directory. That seemed to do what I wanted but it also caused the Desktop mess described above.
To fix the gnome-terminal you need to go to app->nautilus-open-terminal and click on: Desktop_opens_home_dir
It is all so obvious in hindsight, -- ======================================================================= Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@sbcglobal.net