Power Failure - all KDE desktop folders/icons no longer visible

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Hello,

Had a neighbor hood power failure this morning, and when power came on a few hours later I rebooted the system. All of the ‘personal’ KDE desktop icons and folders are not visible. I figure they are around somewhere, but I need to find out how to turn them back ‘on’. There is a ‘default desktop settings’ button I see in the desktop pull-down menu, but I don’t know if that will get me there (or just cause other problems).

Please let me know how to return things to normal.

regards – Roger

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Hello…

I don’t have much to go on, What do you see in Dolphin> Desktop folder?

Also are you on desktop 2?

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Hi,

I can see all of my folders and such in Dolphin Desktop, so they were not deleted. I am on desktop 1 - I looked on desktop 2 and same thing (nothing).

Will the ‘default desktop settings’ just eliminate formatting, such that the files will become visible again?

regards – Roger

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I’ve seen something like this happen. Possibly KDE became confused about activities, and started your session in the wrong activity.

Try switching activities. The activity manager is the small icon with three dots toward the left of the task bar (based on my memory from 13.2). The default for 13.2 is to have three activities defined, so try them all to see if you can find what you expected.

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Switching activities did find it. The desktop items were all ‘arranged’ - not the way I had them, but that is easy enough to fix. Thanks for the pointer!!

regards – Roger

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Awesomeness!

Glad your back in busyness.