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Moved all home directories to different folder?

Ok this is embarrassing!! I wanted to move remote folder from downloads on to /var/www/html directory !! So I used the following command with sudo

    mv /Downloads/remote /var/www/html/remote

And messed up entire file system !! All my home folders which includes downloads, folders and data on desktop everything is moved in /var/www/html/remote and no application or files seems to open !! The only thing that opens is the terminal !! How can I fix this please help !!

Solution

  • First thing to try to reverse it: 

    sudo mv /var/www/html/remote/<your_user_name> /home/

    Otherwise if <your_user_name> isn't in /var/www/html/remote/, do a:

    sudo cp -rp /var/www/html/remote/<your_user_name>/* /home/<your_user_name>/

    then remove manually what shouldn't be in directory remote and what shouldn't be in directory /home/<your_user_name>/...