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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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