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desktop folder missing
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Join Date: Jul 2004
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for some reason my desktop folder isn't showing up in the finder
ive repaired permisisons and relaunched the finder and rebooted
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 or the Go menu, but it doesn't show up in a finder view of my home directory
it has the same permissions (via an ls -l) as all the other folders in /~
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Join Date: Mar 2004
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The folder icon could be invisible due to a special Finder "flag".
Use File Buddy (or FileXaminer, or something) to check for that.
(Or maybe the icon is simply blank. Does it appear in list view?)
Or, perhaps it was somehow added to the .hidden listing (?)
(.hidden is a hidden text file at root listing files Finder shouldn't show)
Or, maybe you've got directory damage. Have you run fsck lately?
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it's not hte icon missing, the whole thing, name and all, doesn't appear in the finder
it's not listed in .hidden
maybe i'll try fsck
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ran fsck, still not there
i can get to it every other way, it juts doesnt show up in the finder listing
same if i look in other programs (soundtrack, etc) in that folder, it doesn't list the Desktop folder
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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/
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Join Date: Mar 2004
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Originally posted by nuggetman:
> got it fixed via apple's forums.
Well... it would still be nice to know what happened in the first place.
(A link to that thread in the Apple Discussions might also be of use).
mkdir Desktop
chmod 700 Desktop
Those two lines can be condensed into one:
mkdir -m 700 ~/Desktop
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So, is there now an empty Desktop.bak directory in your Home folder
visible in Terminal, but (still) invisible in Finder... or did you "rm" it?
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