On 9/21/05 8:51 AM, "Linda" <XPressoBean at mac.com> wrote: > Are you logged in as you? Or did the force restart cause you to log in as a > different user -- one with less material on the desktop? > > If you open a new window, and navigate to your username > desktop folder, is > your data inside that folder? I'm logged in as me, and there's nothing in the Desktop folder in my user. I'm wondering (since shutdown is also screwed up), if there's something wrong with Finder preferences, and whether deleting a p-list file (or several of them) would help. Jim Robertson --