Ubuntu 18.04 GUI File Manager Weirdness

[Robert Heller]

At Wed, 3 Jul 2019 20:19:14 +0200 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> Hi Robert,
>  
> just a shot in the dark. Could it be that the home folder on the
> desktop is some virtual gvfs folder or similar, while when the users
> access the home folder by using the file manager, they access it as a
> normal folder, by the normal path?

The desktop folders *look* like normal folders.  How would I check to see if 
is some virtual gvfs folder?  What is shown on the desktop is what I get when 
I use a terminal and do a 'ls Desktop' (except with the icons).  And why/how 
would things end up in a virtual gvfs folder anyway?  Exactly what good is 
that?

The only thing is these folders were created under Ubuntu 14.04 (or earlier in
some cases, like CentOS 5 or maybe some really old version of Ubuntu -- eg
back in 2006).

> 
> Regards,
> Ralf
> 
> 

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