[geeks] OSX Desktop rebuild

Jonathan Katz jon at jonworld.com
Sun May 11 21:16:41 CDT 2008


Make sure the user accounts is the same name and UID? That $HOME
matches to the /Users/$USER you think it does? I dunno...

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Joshua Boyd <jdboyd at jdboyd.net> wrote:
> I took the boot hard drive from my mac, mounted it as an external drive on
> another mac, and deleted some files from the desktop folder of my Mac.  Then
> I put that hard drive back into my mac.
>
>  Now when I 'ls -l ~/Desktop/' I see nothing, but when I minimize the
> windows, there are a bunch of files without icons still present.
>
>  When I try to google for the subject, I see lots of stuff that says you
> can't rebuild the desktop on OSX.  What do I want then to fix the problem?
>  _________



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