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What do you mean by, "my desktop does not display any of the available folders" ? When you use gksudo nautilus, it uses root's home DIR, which is different from your home DIR.
Can you please open a terminal (CTRL+ALT+T) and run ls -ld /PATH/TO/DIRECTORY twice, once with the source directory you want to copy and once with the target directory inside which the copy should be stored. Then edit your question and paste the output there in plain text (ideally code-formatted). Thanks.
sudo cp -r [nameOfFolder] [nameOfDirectory]
gksudo nautilus
, it uses root's home DIR, which is different from your home DIR.ls -ld /PATH/TO/DIRECTORY
twice, once with the source directory you want to copy and once with the target directory inside which the copy should be stored. Then edit your question and paste the output there in plain text (ideally code-formatted). Thanks.