[lde4.1}Desk top missing

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Thu Aug 21 01:42:36 UTC 2008


On 08/20/2008 05:39 PM, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> --- Bart Silverstrim <bsilver at chrononomicon.com>
> wrote:
[snip]
>> When you go into your ~/Desktop folder and do an "ls
>> -alh", what shows up?
>>
> Hey Bart,
> Not sure about how to do this.  What I did was to
> launch openoffice.org and a document from my Documents
> folder and "save as" it to the Desktop in my old home.
>  It did not copy to the GUI Desktop or file system
> Desktop as shown by ls -alh. I haven't yet reviewed
> all your replies but will to see if you had more
> specific suggestions.  I think you did.

Use the terminal:

ls -alh

If you have two users then:

cd /home/<user>
and use ls -alh to compare the two to see if you a missing a folder in
one or the other.

Regarding "Desktop missing"; can you explain again just what you are
missing, or perhaps post a screenshot someplace?







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