Re: Desktop file "flies" away

On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 10:28:12 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

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/****

ldo@theon:~> mv Desktop/ Desktop/
mv: cannot move 'Desktop/' to a subdirectory of itself, 'Desktop/Desktop'

In other words, your friend can’t have moved a directory into itself
(that would create infinite recursion anyway), he somehow managed to
point the “desktop folder” at ~/Desktop/Desktop instead of just
~/Desktop. That is certainly doable.