Something strangee happewned to alll the non-hidden files in my home directory

[Aaron Konstam]

I am running F12 on a desktop machine. Today all of a sudden I noticed
that all the non-hidden files in my home directory have disappeared.
Along with the others, Documents, Desktop, Music, etc. directories have
disappeared.

In addition I cannot recreate a Desktop directory which has the magic
property of displaying its contents on the Desktop in Gnome. Instead all
files put in my home directory appear on the desktop.

In a directory belonging to another user this Desktop file retains this
property.

Removing the .gnome* and ,gconf directories and logging again does not
help.

Any help out there?
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