lesson learned:

[jack handy]

never take advice given here until it has been confirmed by someone else..

anyone know how to make folders in my Home folder so that they show up on my Places menu again?

[-grubby]

no he was just a troll. remember to NEVER to enter a command starting with "rm" unless you know for sure

[p_quarles]

Sad to say, but I think you deleted your home folder. At least, if you followed that one individual's advice. Yeah, I know, that's not good.

The vast majority of people around here don't pull stuff like that. One tip that might be useful: always check out commands you aren't familiar with by typing:

man command
That brings up the manual page for the command, which will give you a basic sense of what it does.

[yatt]

never take advice given here until it has been confirmed by someone else..

anyone know how to make folders in my Home folder so that they show up on my Places menu again?

1. Open up nautilus.
2. Drag the folder into the places side bar.
3. ???
4. Profit.

[jack handy]

1. Open up nautilus.
2. Drag the folder into the places side bar.
3. ???
4. Profit.
doesnt seem to want to drop into the menu.. whatever i drag in that direction drops as a shortcut on the panel :(

[JetskiDude911]

I hate to say it, but it may be easier for you to just make a new user. Google is also an excellent resource if you want to look up exactly what a command does.

[jack handy]

alright, i got it by removing the menus from the panel and adding it again.

thank you all for the advice and help. this experience was definitely a wake-up call to learn what commands acually do. i mean, its not that i dont know what "rm" does, i just didnt figure that someone would do that to me, so i kinda just copied and pasted the command.

[JetskiDude911]

It's understandable. I wouldn't really expect someone to do that here, but it does happen.

[xyphur]

That being said, I certainly hope someone utilized the "report" feature for this individual?

[FG123]

That being said, I certainly hope someone utilized the "report" feature for this individual?
/raises hand

Managed to get him banned, but it was too late.

[-grubby]

That being said, I certainly hope someone utilized the "report" feature for this individual?

I did

[Nano Geek]

no he was just a troll. remember to NEVER to enter a command starting with "rm" unless you know for sureWhat did the troll tell him to do?

[yabbadabbadont]

What did the troll tell him to do?

Nobody can tell you for fear of being banned... :twisted:

From the previous posts, it obviously had something to do with a terminal window and "rm -rf ..." ;)