On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 16:34 +, Sean Miller wrote:
> As to re-creating it as a standard directory, don't see any reason why
> you should not.
I've recreated it, and it is there, both in Nautilus and when I use the
terminal, but it doesn't show as my Desktop - that still shows /home.
I've check
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?
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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
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?
Is it possible that you managed to drag the Desktop folder from where
it should have been (ie. your home directory) to somewhere else in the
first
I would also free up some space. Check your logs under /var/logs too, there
may be some relevant warnings on there too.
Mark
On 25 February 2010 21:45, Jonathon Fernyhough wrote:
> OK, different tack.
>
> On 25 February 2010 19:19, Dianne Reuby wrote:
> > My /home is up to 94% suddenly, so coul
OK, different tack.
On 25 February 2010 19:19, Dianne Reuby wrote:
> My /home is up to 94% suddenly, so could that be it? I really must
> reallocate that XP partition to Ubuntu.
>
Can you find anything that is taking up a lot of space? Video? Audio?
Could you try moving it to the XP drive and fr
On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 20:14 +, Jonathon Fernyhough wrote:
> On 25 February 2010 19:19, Dianne Reuby wrote:
> > I logged out and back in, and I get icons now, but they're for my
> > Documents folder.
> >
> > I tried rebooting, and still get the same.
> >
> > Everything seems to be working OK, e
Ubuntu tweak is an application that allows you to "tweak" parts of Ubuntu. It
is available here:
http://ubuntu-tweak.com/
On 25 Feb 2010, at 20:39, Paul Sutton wrote:
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> Jonathon Fernyhough wrote:
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Jonathon Fernyhough wrote:
> On 25 February 2010 19:19, Dianne Reuby wrote:
>> I logged out and back in, and I get icons now, but they're for my
>> Documents folder.
>>
>> I tried rebooting, and still get the same.
>>
>> Everything seems to be working
On 25 February 2010 19:19, Dianne Reuby wrote:
> I logged out and back in, and I get icons now, but they're for my
> Documents folder.
>
> I tried rebooting, and still get the same.
>
> Everything seems to be working OK, except that the Desktop folder with a
> few documents and a couple of shortcu
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 typed it in manually, and it
said
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