Home directory as desktop.

[hippie dream]

On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 15:12 -0700, hippie dream wrote:
> Hello All,
> 

> > sudo mv /usr/share/emacs/22.2/site-lisp /home/sam/Desktop     # So I was
> > meaning to move one file from my desktop
> # So then I thought to reverse this... This was stupid although not too
> harmful it really just put the desktop directory into the emacs directory.
> >  sudo mv /home/sam/Desktop /usr/share/emacs/22.2/site-lisp
> 
> Of course at this point I realized that I was not moving the file but an
> entire directory. Now my home folder is shared with my Desktop. Any
> changes
> made on my desktop affects my home folder. Any ideas on how I could
> reverse
> this mess I've created? Instead of having Ubuntu load my entire home
> directory onto the desktop, I would like it only to desktop a directory
> aptly named 'Desktop' as it was previously. 

To reverse the above do the following:

sudo mv /usr/share/emacs/22.2/site-lisp /home/sam/Desktop

There should be a directory called site-lisp in /home/sam/Desktop. Move
it back by doing:

sudo mv /home/sam/Desktop/site-lisp /usr/share/emacs/22.2/site-lisp

Thanks for the reply. I tried the following command and received this
message:

sam at sam-laptop:~$ sudo mv /usr/share/emacs/22.2/site-lisp /home/sam/Desktop 
mv: cannot overwrite non-directory `/home/sam/Desktop/site-lisp' with
directory `/usr/share/emacs/22.2/site-lisp'

For some reason my activities have ended up making my desktop linked to my
home directory. Also there was a file not a directory in /home/sam/Desktop/
called site-lisp which I have move as suggested. However, can anyone suggest
how I may restablish the connection between my physical desktop and the
directory Desktop and remove the link between my home directory and my
physical desktop.

Thanks!

Sam

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