[ubuntu-uk] My Desktop's disappeared

[alan c]

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??

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alan cocks
Ubuntu user