desktop folder?

[radioboy]

What's the location of the desktop folder?

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

[divinatum]

Travis-Computer:~/Desktop travis$ pwd

/Users/travis/Desktop

Travis-Computer:~/Desktop travis$

donno why you cant get to it

[PureEdit]

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.

[radioboy]

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]

repair permissions?

[radioboy]

read the post ;)

[divinatum]

:blush:

maybe delete the preferences for finder? donno tbh.

[radioboy]

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

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/

[Southern Patriot]

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.