Contents of /home/my_user_name/ gone!!!!

[augur]

Greetings,

I was browsing a CD in kfm, but got fed up 'cause I don't like using those touchpad mouses (I was using my laptop). So I closed kfm and opened, or better tried to open a terminal window, so I could browse the CD using the command line. What happened was, when I clicked on the terminal icon, my HD went berserk, with lots of weird activity going on, and kde wasn't responding. After waiting for a few minutes, nothing seemed to change so I killed X: CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE. After that the contents of /home/my_user_name/ where gone! :mad:
Did anyone ever experienced something like this? Or does anyone have an ideia of what/why this happened?

Thanks.

[X_console]

This is quite strange. I can only assume that your terminal icon was trojaned to delete your home directory. What happens when you open kfm again?

[augur]

Yes, if it wasn't for the fact that nobody else uses that machine, and that it is not connected to the outside world in any way, i would assume that too! But one can never be 100% sure, I guess!
The last program i installed was bochs, a Pentium PC emulator, and I downloaded it (on another machine) from the oficial bochs' ftp site, so I doubt that this would be the cause of this incident.
Anyway, I've been wanting to do a fresh install, so it's what I did after calling my computer hundreds of names, so i did not try opening kfm or anything else.
Thanks, anyway. :)

[Pierre Lambion]

I recently deleted my "downloads" folder. I was unsing gentoo. As soon as you click an item, it gets selected and slections add up.
Apparently, I didn't see that "downloads" was already selected when I clicked the delete button!

Well, that the only explanation I found to my disapeared downloads folder! I don't say the same happened to you, but who knows with those GUI file managers.

Now I'm back to bash. apt-get remove gentoo and safe again.

Pierre

P.S. Gentoo is a fine file manager however, but not for me!