"mek@antenna" wrote:
>
> dear newbies (and old bees),
> something very strange happened to me. i downloaded a webpage about
> "faq about modems" so as usually mr.netscape asked me the question where i
> want to have it saved, the usual place for me is /home/mek/ (mek is my
> name), because there lays all my important stuff. so later off line i
> wanted to read it in kde, opened the home-directory as window, clicked the
> icon "mek" where after i should find the icons of all my programs and
> important stuff, but there i found the tekst "faq about modems" instead of
> any icons. i tried to delete the tekst, to get back the icons, but it
> didn't work, even not to remove to the trash bin.
> fortunately i saw by using the disk-navigator that all the files does
> still exist. does anyone know how i get rid of this.
>
> oh yes, the downloaded file was part of uunet-howtos, so i searched on
> everithing on my harddisk called "uunet" and deleted it, but still...
>
> i use suse 6.1
>
> mek
Hi "mek"!
You probably saved a web page called index.html to your home directory,
and as the KDE file manager is a web browser, it displays that instead
of the other contents of your home directory. Just open a terminal and
change the name by "mv index.html someothername.html".
HTH!
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