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I was following this guide that helped me with symlinks and personal folders a few times already, but I messed up cause I accidentally did the same thing for the Desktop folder. Then I wanted to return it to normal and I typed

rm -rf ~/Desktop && ln -s /home/tesla/Desktop ~/Desktop

But the product of that was all my personal folder on my desktop when I re-logged in. Then I tried

rm -rf ~/Desktop && ln -s /home/tesla ~/Desktop

But it made an invalid link on my desktop.

Is there a way to reset everything the way it was so I can redo this carefully?

Thanks in advance.

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Please update your question with information about your current working directory when executing mentioned commands (you can find those executing the pwd command). – Izzy Jul 31 '12 at 9:03

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