Can't right click, copy or move files to Desktop???

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Published on 2012-09-27T19:24:15Z Indexed on 2012/10/22 11:18 UTC
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I am on Ubuntu 12.04 running gnome shell 3. Everything worked fine until I updated just a few hours ago using the update package.

First my default shortcuts stopped working, fixed it by creating custom ones.

Now while on the desktop I can't right-click, move files to it or see the files that were there previously. However, in terminal I can navigate fine to Desktop and my files are there, except not visually on the desktop. Permissions are all set correctly.

Please help. Thank you.

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