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Hi all,
I was trying to find a way of creating a desktop shortcut to my Downloads folder (which I wasn’t fully successful with) & somehow I managed to completely delete my Download folder complete with contents (thankfully not much)
It was not in the recycle bin, now when I open the main system folder & click the download link in the left hand pane it says "Could not find "/home/name/Desktop/Downloads"
I had hoped that a reboot might recreate the folder but it didn't so now I don't know how to get the folder back, I'm not too worried about the original content.
Any idea's much appreciated, I really don't want to have to reinstall the system from scratch as I have obviously tweak stuff to my liking which would take ages to do again.
Thanks all.
Location: Montreal, Quebec and Dartmouth, Nova Scotia CANADA
Distribution: Arch, AntiX, ArtiX
Posts: 1,364
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Hi Gillsman - just recreate the directory.
The "Downloads" and other directories ("Documents" etc. ..) are created at install by some distros as a courtesy more than anything else. I don't consider them "system" directories. I am a bit surprised that "Downloads" was under "Desktop", mind you ... They are usually both under a user's home directory in distros that create them. ... Nevertheless ... :
$ cd /home/yourname/Desktop
$ mkdir Downloads
... shouldn't be more complicated than that. Thereafter, anything pointing to that directory will once again be happy :-)
Cheers Guys, I created a new Downloads folder in my home directory, that seems to be ok, only thing is I have lost the link in the left hand pane of the files folder but I can live with that.
Cheers to all that helped.
Location: Montreal, Quebec and Dartmouth, Nova Scotia CANADA
Distribution: Arch, AntiX, ArtiX
Posts: 1,364
Rep:
Glad all is good. For the "link" you said you've lost, sounds like what is called a "bookmark" in the file manager I use (PCManFM in LXDE). There's probably a simple function for creating bookmarks (or whatever your DE/File Manager calls them) to restore your link.
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