On Oct 11, 2005, at 5:51 PM, Green, Cathy sounds frustrated: > Many thanks for all your help! Lee, tried your steps again, as the > BatChmod didn't work. One time I entered into the terminal the 'cd > Desktop', I was able to enter 'ls' after that, but nothing happened > like it did last night, showing my desktop files. The next time I > entered the same info, I got the message: couldn't find a working > desktop! (or something along those lines;;; hopefully I haven't > inadvertently messed up something majorly important in these > processes!!).
Okay...it sounds like you weren't at your root when you did the 'cd Desktop' or you didn't use the capitalization--it's case sensitive. The command cd $HOME/Desktop Should get you there from anywhere. To make sure, you can get your current path location with the command pwd which stands for "print working directory." -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20051011/499a2bb0/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2408 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20051011/499a2bb0/attachment.bin
