My Desktop Is Locked!!!!! Help!!!! Please!!!

**manny_festo** · August 17th, 2006, 12:31 AM

I can access my desktop but the files are gone now

**simbalala** · August 17th, 2006, 12:36 AM

Which files? I've kinda lost track here.

In Terminal type

cd Desktop
ls -al

and see what's there.

**manny_festo** · August 17th, 2006, 12:42 AM

I had folders of media etc. and the new program I was trying to install on my desktop that dissappeared just before my desktop was restricted....
now none of them are there

**simbalala** · August 17th, 2006, 12:47 AM

And you can't see them with the

ls -al command?

Have you been running under the same user all the time?

I don't really understand why you've got a group of admin unless you've created a user named admin but it could be that it's because you're using 10.3 and I'm not familiar with 10.3

**simbalala** · August 17th, 2006, 12:48 AM

Can you add new folders and files to the Desktop now using Finder normally?

**manny_festo** · August 17th, 2006, 12:54 AM

woah you are a genius... truly.. All I did was add a new folder and everything popped up..

thanks you so much... !

**simbalala** · August 17th, 2006, 01:08 AM

I'm glad you're OK now.

But it's time for the obligatory lecture.

BACKUPS ARE NOT OPTIONAL

Get an external Firewire drive (I have two) and backup your drive using SuperDuper or something similar (SuperDuper is Great).

Then you won't be sweating bullets next time some dodgy install knackers your machine.

**ironcrosshunter** · June 26th, 2008, 09:17 PM

i also have this problem after i downloaded the freehand update. can any one help
here is the terminal

Last login: Fri Jun 27 10:00:40 on ttyp1
Welcome to Darwin!
Weinees-Computer:~ weinee$ cd Desktop
-bash: cd: Desktop: Permission denied
Weinees-Computer:~ weinee$ ls -l
total 88
-rw-r--r-- 1 weinee weinee 7562 26 Apr 17:58 Adobe SVG 3.0 Installer Log
drwxr-xr-x 18 weinee weinee 612 23 Jun 23:51 Artwork
drw-r--r-- 46 weinee weinee 1564 26 Jun 17:42 Desktop
drwx------ 13 weinee weinee 442 16 Jun 12:13 Documents
-rw-r--r-- 1 weinee weinee 0 26 Jun 20:10 FreeHand MXa 11.0.2 Update
drwx------ 40 weinee weinee 1360 5 Mar 2007 Library
drwx------ 4 weinee weinee 136 31 Aug 2006 Movies
drwx------ 7 weinee weinee 238 5 Aug 2005 Music
drwx------ 5 weinee weinee 170 29 Oct 2005 Pictures
drwxr-xr-x 4 weinee weinee 136 10 Jun 2004 Public
drwxr-xr-x 38 weinee weinee 1292 11 Jun 11:55 Shared
drwxr-xr-x 6 weinee weinee 204 22 Aug 2004 Sites
drwxr-xr-x 6 weinee weinee 204 1 Dec 2006 desktop_pix
drwxr-xr-x 2 weinee weinee 68 26 Jun 19:40 untitled folder
drwxr-xr-x 61 weinee weinee 2074 27 Jun 04:17 ???Jpg
Weinees-Computer:~ weinee$

i do not know how, please help