My desktop icons and folders are not visible.
In the Finder window when I click on Desktop, my desktop icons and folders are there. But when I go to the desktop itself, none are visible.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7)
Back up all data.
Triple-click the line below on this page to select it:
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
Right-click or control -click the highlighted line and select
Services ▹ Reveal
from the contextual menu.* A folder should open with an item selected. Move the selected item to the Desktop, leaving the window open. Relaunch the Finder and test. If there's no change, put the item you moved back where it was, overwriting the one that may have been created in its place. Otherwise, delete the item you moved.
*If you don't see the contextual menu item, copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C). In the Finder, select
Go ▹ Go to Folder...
from the menu bar, paste into the box that opens (command-V). You won't see what you pasted because a line break is included. Press return.
