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my documents, music and video folders have been moved to a tab called bookmarks within file manager and cannot be found when I try to access them also the folders in the picture have decided to take up residence on my desktop and I have no idea why, can this be fixed and if so can you please provide instructions, thanks in advance.enter image description here

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  • They have not been moved to that tab, but it seems like something bad happened to them. Try to fsck your filesystem and may be you will find your documents in the lost+found directory. – Danatela Apr 01 '15 at 11:44
  • This link may explain how does fsck work: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-recover-from-file-system-corruption-using-fsck-and-a-recovery-iso – Danatela Apr 01 '15 at 11:49
  • thanks @Danatela to be honest the instructions on your link are beyond my comfort zone. – Tony Bartlett Apr 01 '15 at 12:36
  • just wanted to add, i found a kind of a work around without over complicating things, i simply created a new user (as other user accounts on my system seemed unaffected) and deleted the account pictured above. – Tony Bartlett Apr 01 '15 at 20:59
  • Congrats! The question should be closed now. And you should expand your comfort zone if you are planning to continue learning Linux. – Danatela Apr 02 '15 at 03:33

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The following steps should fix the problem:

  1. Create user dirs inside your home directory (issue Ctrl+Alt+T to launch Terminal)

    mkdir Documents Music Videos Desktop

    (normally, there should be also Pictures and Downloads dir, but they exist in your home, so I omitted them)

  2. Boot into single user mode and try to fix the errors if any exist.

    • choose fsck from recovery menu. From it's output, remember the disk node which will be /dev/sdXY. X is letter, and Y is partition number. For example, most systems have /dev/sda1 though your home partition may be placed on another.

    • choose root. It will give you the root shell prompt.

    • type fsck -p /dev/sdXY. sdXY should be replaced with your remembered disk node. This will automatically repair all fixable errors. Found files will be placed inside the lost+found directory.

  3. Once you have finished, resume normal boot (hit Ctrl+D)

  4. Update your user dirs

    xdg-user-dirs-update

  5. Distribute found files into corresponding directories.

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