On Tue, 06 May 2008 15:14:45 +0100, Alan Secker wrote:
> Embarrassing this. A colleague on mdv 2007 has lost his desktop devices
> icon. Although I can find the icon itself, for the life of me, I cannot get
> it to work. How should I do it?

No idea about desktop devices icon, but here is an example of Storage Media
and user alan.

Create another account, say, junk.
Log in as junk.
cd Desktop
click up a terminal
su root
cp media.desktop ~alan/Desktop
cd ~alan/Desktop
ls -al
chown alan:alan media.desktop
exit
exit

Log out of junk, log in as alan.

Bit Twister wrote:

> On Tue, 06 May 2008 15:14:45 +0100, Alan Secker wrote:
>> Embarrassing this. A colleague on mdv 2007 has lost his desktop devices
>> icon. Although I can find the icon itself, for the life of me, I cannot
>> get it to work. How should I do it?
>
> No idea about desktop devices icon, but here is an example of Storage
> Media and user alan.
>
> Create another account, say, junk.
> Log in as junk.
> cd Desktop
> click up a terminal
> su root
> cp media.desktop ~alan/Desktop
> cd ~alan/Desktop
> ls -al
> chown alan:alan media.desktop
> exit
> exit
>
> Log out of junk, log in as alan.

That did it! Thank you

Alan