Hello,

Today something very unusual happened that I have never experienced  
before. By testing a macro I seem to have turned my old Desktop  
folder into a Nisus document! As a result I can't see the files and  
folders I used to keep on the Desktop and I cannot drag anything to  
the Desktop either, of course.

Does anybody have an idea how I can get my old Desktop folder back?


Here is the story how this happened:
I was trying to write a macro which was supposed to save a new Nisus  
file automatically to the desktop. The underlying idea was to select  
a word in the active new document, then start a macro that would save  
the document using the selection as title. -- I normally use to test  
macros by having two documents open, let's call them A and B. I write  
the macro commands in A, then select the commands and let the macro  
be executed in B by using the command "Run Selection As Macro" from  
the Macro menu.

Today I wanted to test the following lines:

$path = '/Users/meinewenigkeit/Desktop
$name = Read Selection
$name = $name &= ‘.rtf’
Save to $path, $name

I actually intended to close the path with an apostrophe (') after  
the word "Desktop" , but it seems I forgot it.

The result was that the files and folders I had on the Desktop  
suddenly all disappeared and the Desktop folder itself is now a Nisus  
document

I cannot drag anything to the Desktop because it is a Nisus file now!

If I open my home folder and click on the Desktop folder (which now  
has a Nisus icon) the Nisus document B will be opened, in other words  
my old Desktop has now become the old Nisus document B.

The question is now: How can I get my old Desktop folder back (with  
the files and folders I used to keep there)?


Þorvarður
OS X 10.4.11
Power Mac G4