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nuggetman

Mar 28 2005, 18:36

What's the location of the desktop folder?

I thought it was /Users/Name/Desktop but that doesn't seem to be it

divinatum

Mar 28 2005, 21:19

Travis-Computer:~/Desktop travis$ pwd
/Users/travis/Desktop
Travis-Computer:~/Desktop travis$

donno why you cant get to it

PureEdit

Mar 28 2005, 22:47

QUOTE(nuggetman @ Mar 28 2005, 10:36)

What's the location of the desktop folder?

I thought it was /Users/Name/Desktop but that doesn't seem to be it
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Thats it.

If you are using a type of workspace manager program it might be different.

nuggetman

Mar 29 2005, 01:23

for some reason it isn't showing up in the finder

ive repaired permisisons and relaunched the finder
i can see ~/Desktop when i do an ls in the terminal, and I can cd to it just fine, and i can get to it via the sidebar in the finder, but it doesn't show up in a finder view of my home directory

divinatum

Mar 29 2005, 01:43

repair permissions?

nuggetman

Mar 29 2005, 03:34

read the post

divinatum

Mar 29 2005, 06:10

maybe delete the preferences for finder? donno tbh.

nuggetman

Mar 29 2005, 11:15

got it fixed via apple's forums... here's the answer for anyone who may need it someday:

QUOTE

This same thing happened to someone here last week. He/she ended up backing up the Desktop folder, creating a new one, setting its appropriate permissions, and copying the contents to the new folder:

mv Desktop Desktop.bak
mkdir Desktop
chmod 700 Desktop
mv Desktop.bak/* Desktop/

roadwarrior

Mar 31 2005, 15:54

It would seem like just setting the permissions on the folder ("chmod 700 Desktop" in Terminal) would do the same thing as creating a new one and copying the files into it.

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