Lee, Frustrated isn't quite the word, but for this forum it'll just have to do...Since I really have no clue about the Terminal, I did try to key in info exactly what you sent me...So I went back into the terminal to key in the new info you sent me, and this popped up in the next line: [Cathy-Greens-Computer:~/Desktop] cathygreen% and then I keyed in pwd, and got the response "no such file or directory"... I'm probably doing something basic very wrongly, but as I said, I've not got the expertise necessary to get me out of this mess...
Last login: Tue Oct 11 21:46:37 on ttyp1 Welcome to Darwin! [Cathy-Greens-Computer:~] cathygreen% pwd /Users/cathygreen [Cathy-Greens-Computer:~] cathygreen% cd $HOME/Desktop[Cathy-Greens-Computer:~/Desktop] cathygreen% pwd pwd: : No such file or directory [Cathy-Greens-Computer:~/Desktop] cathygreen% I don't know the order in which to key what info, where, or even how the heck to get to the root, other than to go that other route suggested by one of the Jerrys...ARRR! Now that's out of my system, I am ready to tackle this issue, as I feel it's pretty serious, since I can't see on the desktop any disks in the drives---if you've got the time & patience to walk me through this. Seems like just as soon as one problem gets resolved, something else needs tweaking... TIA, Cathy > ---------- > From: owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu on behalf of Lee > Larson > Reply To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 8:55 PM > To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Subject: Re: MacGroup: force to trash [bcc][faked-from] > > 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/20051011/6880abd1/attachment.html
