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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Desktop file "flies" away
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2024 10:28:12 +0100
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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

-- 
"Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social 
conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the 
windows of my apartment. (I live on the twenty-first floor.) "

Alan Sokal