[ubuntu-uk] My Desktop's disappeared

[Dianne Reuby]

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.

TIA
Dianne