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 typed it in manually, and it > said "no such folder". And my Desktop was empty, apart from the > wallpaper, my XP drive shortcut, the panels, and a sticky note. > > 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 shortcuts is gone. > > I'm using Ubuntu 9.10, Intel Celeron D, 433 memory, ATI graphics. > My /home is up to 94% suddenly, so could that be it? I really must > reallocate that XP partition to Ubuntu.
Is a folder or device mounted (by accident) somewhere? I have a vague memory that if something is mounted at a folder then the previous contents of that folder are no longer available for as long as the mount exists?? -- alan cocks Ubuntu user -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
