I would do "find / -name Desktop" rather than "./" which only searches
below the current directory.
As to re-creating it as a standard directory, don't see any reason why
you should not.
Sean
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On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 16:00 +, Andrew Bryant wrote:
>
> > find ./ -name "Desktop"
> >
> It is worth checking if it is still around before re-creating it.
>
I've only got a wine/windows desktop result to that - so I've definitely
eliminated it somehow.
So can I just recreate it like a
Alan Lord (News) wrote:
> On 26/02/10 14:09, Dianne Reuby wrote:
>
>> No, afraid not. What I don't understand is why I didn't get that "are
>> you sure you really want to delete this file" message that comes up
>> normally.
>>
>
> Have you searched for the Desktop directory to see it has mo
On 26/02/10 14:09, Dianne Reuby wrote:
>
> No, afraid not. What I don't understand is why I didn't get that "are
> you sure you really want to delete this file" message that comes up
> normally.
Have you searched for the Desktop directory to see it has moved? It can
be quite easy to accidentally
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 10:28 +, mac wrote:
> Dianne Reuby wrote:
>
> > Somehow I've deleted that folder, but I don't know how!
>
> Forgive me if I'm being stupid, but is it, by any chance, in your waste bin?
>
> mac
>
No, afraid not. What I don't understand is why I didn't get that "are
you
Dianne Reuby wrote:
> Last week my son used my PC for a minute, when he left it I said "Hey,
> where're all my icons?" "It's always doing that." "It's never done it to
> me!"
>
> Now tonight it has done it to me - I was using Filezilla, and couldn't
> find Desktop in the directory listing. So I ty
Dianne Reuby wrote:
> Somehow I've deleted that folder, but I don't know how!
Forgive me if I'm being stupid, but is it, by any chance, in your waste bin?
mac
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On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 07:29 +, Sean Miller wrote:
> Going back to the start of this thread, when you say you couldn't find
> the Desktop folder and so you "typed it in manually" what precisely do
> you mean?
I was using Filezilla to download a small config file, which I was
going to edit and
