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Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-4.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2024 01:29:25 +0000 Subject: Re: Desktop file "flies" away Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc References: <vaggvv$ko6$1@reader1.panix.com> <vagsnr$2aci1$1@dont-email.me> <vahkjm$2dnbp$1@dont-email.me> <slrnvcor39.1e1k0.wookie@aspen.localdomain> <2tOdnRfnSO-LDVD7nZ2dnZfqnPudnZ2d@earthlink.com> <vak67c$2u9rn$1@dont-email.me> <slrnvcrtu2.3f8n.candycanearter07@candydeb.host.invalid> From: "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> Organization: wokiesux Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2024 21:29:24 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.13.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <slrnvcrtu2.3f8n.candycanearter07@candydeb.host.invalid> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <6TudnbYio6vo4FP7nZ2dnZfqnPadnZ2d@earthlink.com> Lines: 31 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 99.101.150.97 X-Trace: sv3-Uyr8U0ds6JCtybRzl4wv5AfI/OPYPFfyV8v+raEmMxcMSa7Xf6xHgA4xuVeqtzZmeVF2h78yjSEDyDH!rFdmljvSCGZqR9bbL/sUTTxP8NmBNRK3p6N1BCV9GpWuU+k3gXmLvITMltu0B27uHthbyDJztV+X!JGuMUwMrMBRTdL8C7pn0 X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2774 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.