This is a case of a shell script gone bad. I was trying to use a script to move the contents of a directory in my home directory into the trash.
But looks like it all went wrong as all the directories in my home started to vanish before my very eyes. Fortunatly there is nothing too important cos I have just installed but I spend most of today writing some mp3's there and there are 1 or 2 other files I need.
Think it is bad cos they are not in the trash. My script used rm -rf * - Looks like this was an oversight!