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On 8/27/24 12:00 PM, candycanearter07 wrote:
> The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote at 09:28 this Tuesday (GMT):
>> On 27/08/2024 09:36, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
>>> As for the Linux distro - not all THAT much diff
>>>     anymore as to where 'Desktop' is located. If this
>>>     was a real prob, well, and I had a Win user who
>>>     did this too often, had to increase the time SAMBA
>>>     kept backups because of her bad mouse-skills. She
>>>     once dragged an ENTIRE share into the Win trash.
>>
>> I bui8lt a linux system for an ageing friend. He managed to drag the
>> *entire* desktop folder into the desktop folder.
>>
>> So the file tree was /home/usr/Desktop/Desktop/****
>>
>> I take my hat off to him. Sheer genius
> 
> 
> I can do one better:
> I somehow messed up so bad once that it created 30 layers of EFI folders
> within itself
> 
> The path was: /boot/EFI/EFI/EFI/EFI/EFI/EFI/EFI....
> Holding down tab to get through all of them, there wasn't anything in
> the bottom folder..

   Once saw something much like that, but after a few layers
   it was CIRCULAR ... /boot/EFI/EFI/EFI/EFI/boot/EFI/(and so
   forth). The GUI file manager could not cope - something
   about the way it parsed paths - had to dig in using
   terminal utils, one 'cd' at a time.