Home directory disappears from Places menu

[ububooboo]

My first time to visit here. Twice I installed Maverick 10.10. First install, one day my Places menu would not bring up my Home folder. I got Error dialog box that said File not found.

So I reinstalled Ubuntu 10.10 and upgraded to new kernel version. Everything was fine till I used my USB flashdrive to reinstall an app. Immediately afterward, when I went to places and clicked on Home, I got the SAME Message that Home File is not found. What's going on? Not sure if using my flash drive would cause this, but it has happened (the Places Menu not working) in two installs of this release. I didn't use the USB flash drive first install, so I have no idea why it disappeared then.

Has anyone any knowledge of how a whole directory (Home nor any of the places in Home---Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Music, etc.) all will not work from menu.

To access I have to go to Computer, and my home directory and all the places is listed there. I am absolutely at a loss as to how to fix this, and indeed have no idea what's causing it. I'll have to uninstall this distro and put Mint 9 back in here if I can't get this fixed.

[ubudog]

What kind of machine do you have?

[ububooboo]

I have an Acer Aspire 2007 desktop,2.4, duocore AMD Athlon 4400 CPUs, 320 Gig harddrive, nVidia 6150 Geforce, n430 (I think), Any other info I'd have to go looking for. Hooked up to wired NetGear modem/4-port router. Uninstalled first time because of this same problem.

[ububooboo]

I need to explain that the menu still reads the same, but when I click on Home in menu or any other places in Home folder, I get the same Error File not found.

[ububooboo]

No helpers? Is this a bug? Could the upgrade of the kernel cause this? I uninstalled and have just reinstalled so ithe menu still works---so far. If it happens again, I shall try to figure out what I was doing immediately prior to the event. Should I report this as a bug?

[ubudog]

On launchpad I guess...yeah.