Edgy - "Missing" Directories

[Scott]

On Sunday 08 October 2006 04:40 pm, Paul Williams (paul at smoothweb.net)
spake thusly:

> On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 16:30 -0700, Scott wrote:
>> On Sunday 08 October 2006 01:46 pm, stude.list at googlemail.com
>> (stude.list at googlemail.com) spake thusly:
>> 
>> > Hi
>> > 
>> > On 08/10/06, Scott <geekboy at angrykeyboarder.com> wrote:
>> >> I'm not sure what's happened (I suspect I've inadvertently changed
>> >> a
>> >> setting somewhere  --  but then...maybe not) but when I open
>> >> Nautilus and move to the top of the directory tree, I only see two
>> >> directories. Those being "home" and "media".
>> > So your saying you can't see the directories but they're there?
>> 
>> I see the directories in a terminal as a user or as root (i.e. ls
>> -all
>> lists directories as you'd expect).  But when I open Nautilus or
>> Konqueror and navigate to the top of the directory tree ("/") I only
>> see two directories ("home" and "media").
>> 
>> This also affects file save and open dialogs. Nothing outside of
>> "media"
>> and "home" (and their subfolders) shows up.  But if I type the path
>> in (thank god GNOME *finally* figured that's a user friendly feature)
>> I can get to the directory (although it often causes a hang in KDE).
>> 
> Ah! This happened to me about a week ago. I don't remember exactly how
> I fixed it, but I think I fiddled with the Nautilus settings in
> 'gconf-editor'
> 
> Also, try clicking "View -> Show Hidden Files and Folders" in
> Nautilus.

The only problem with this is, that it wouldn't affect Konqueror and the
problem is the same there.

This is really bizarre.
-- 
        Scott
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