My Desktop, uh, disappeared...

[Mechcozmo]

One more thing, its been awhile since I've used a Mac like this but if you can make the Desktop folder show up on a Windows machine, you should be able to right click on it and change it from hidden to visible and (possibly) have it be visible on the Mac as well. I did this with the iPod_Control folder on my iPod which is hidden without a dot and it worked perfectly.

-Ani

My WinXP box needs a reinstall. Badly. That's project number two....

 

[Mechcozmo]

GAAAAAHHHH.

Spent 51 minutes with AppleCare. Lady was very nice. But after repairing my hard disk from the Installer CD (three times) and repairing my disk permissions from the hard drive, she told me I'd have to buy $70 or $100 software OR clean install OS X because the desktop file doesn't get rebuilt or something during an Archive and Install.

So, I talked to her. Asked why it appeared in a normal ls command but not in the Finder. Asked why and how it could get that way.

So, a Clean Install it is. Unless I get my WinXP box working... then I might try vniow's suggestion...

 

[PlaceofDis]

i would almost try Vinow's suggestion first if you can, know anyone with XP on a Laptop that you could network it to? that might work as well

 

[Mechcozmo]

other than that, the desktop is basically just a folder in your home folder, so i suppose you could just recreate it, but i would be cautious and wait and see what others say about that

It is actually a link that is created that has a pass to the core of OS X. I talked to the tech support lady about that. She told me that I couldn't just create a folder or a new user acount and copy it in because all the links to my files would be ***ked up.

And can't even do an Archive and Install...

Maybe I'll just wait for Tiger? hehe.

 

[spinne1]

Do the following:

Download Kilometre:

http://www.alex-castro.com/km/kilometre.sit

Uncompress this program and double click the icon for "kilometre."

When Kilometre opens go to the menu item Options and uncheck "Hide Mac Invisible Files."

Go to the open window in Kilometre with your computer's hard drives displayed and navigate to your user folder. Within this should be "Desktop."

Click on it once to select it and go up to the File menu and select Get Info. Within this window, you can check or uncheck "Invisible." See if it is already checked for "invisible" and if so, uncheck it. That should do it.

 

[AdamR01]

I had the exact same issue as you with the Desktop being hidden. I cant remember the exact page, but I found this page http://www.aplawrence.com/Bofcusm/1936.html . Finder can have hidden files if they start with a ".", are listed in the .hidden file in a directory, or they have the hidden attribute. I had the developer tools installed and did a "/Developer/Tools/SetFile -a v ~/Desktop"

 

[Mechcozmo]

Thanks everyone, but I fixed it...

I dragged everything out of my Desktop folder and into a folder in my Documents folder called "Saved"
Then I deleted my Desktop folder (used Cocktail and told it to show hidden files)
Then I restarted (no emptying of trash)

It worked!

 

[jsalzer]

Kewl!

Good job! Let's hope this happens to none of us again!

Happy Mac'ing!

 

[mkrishnan]

...are listed in the .hidden file in a directory, or they have the hidden attribute.

This is interesting info. Now I'm somehow compelled to execute find -f / | grep ".hidden".

 

[Mechcozmo]

Good job! Let's hope this happens to none of us again!

Happy Mac'ing!

Hear, hear!

This is interesting info. Now I'm somehow compelled to execute find -f / | grep ".hidden".

Tell us if you find something interesting, eh?

 

[Nermal]

Hmm, this problem has just happened to me too

I'll try deleting the folder like in post #32 and see what happens

Edit: It's greyed out in Open/Save boxes. I still haven't tried deleting the existing one though.