My Desktop Disappeared...

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m0nkeybl1tz

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First of all, I'm using OS X 1.5. Anyways, here's my problem: A couple of folders were acting funny, and my hard drive icons appeared with black stripes on them, so I decided to delete a file that I thought had something to do with it. However, when I tried to trash it, it said it was owned by root. I then went online to see how to delete something that's owned by root. I tried deleting it with Terminal, but that didn't work. Then, when I looked to my desktop, there was nothing there except my two hard drives, which were still oddly intact. I tried some data recovery software, but nothing worked. Any ideas? Any help is really greatly appreciated, since there was some important stuff on the desktop.
 
Hey monkeyblitz,
welcome to the forum!
I would suggest you to trash your finder plist. You can find it in home/Library/Preferences. Look for com.apple.finder.plist.
And what file is it you want to delete?
 
Few more questions: is your finder running? Did you try to relaunch it (press command+option+esc)? Can you access your folders using command+n? If so, do you find your files or folders on the Desktop when you browse through the finder window?
 
Well, the file I'm trying to delete is called Lore-Dark Horizons Demo. It seems odd that it would be somehow corrupted,since I downloaded it from downloads.com, but oh well. As for opening my finder in a new window, that didn't work, but I haven't tried reloading it, so I'll give that a go. Thanks.
 
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