hay this might be a really stupid question but . .
ive been trying to learn terminal commands, but the 'cd' command doesn't seem to work.
for example if can use the 'ls' command and it will say desktop, music, pictures etc. but when i then type 'cd music' it says no such file or directory. can someone please tell me what i am doing wrong? or post a link to a similar topic

do a ls -l and post the results here and M in music is capital .I'd advice you to use tab completion

Probably because it's case sensitive. Does it say Desktop or desktop?

So try cd Desktop

worked when i used correct cases, haha how smart am i . . . : /
thanks for the quick replies btw

Never mind. I have experienced that there is no limit to my idiotness when it comes to linux and computers.

I'd advise learning to use tab as well, if you type a few characters then hit tab, it should auto complete as far as possible the path you are typing.

So if you have three files in a directory called.

randommusic.wav
project.txt
project.bak

if you type 'p' then hit tab it should go "project.". When you hit this point you can then double hit tab and it should show

project.txt
project.bak

If you hit tab and it doesn't auto complete and you hit it again and it doesn't display any possibilities then you probably got something wrong with the name.