My distro is Backtrack 4, based on Ubuntu, it comes with KDE3.

When you first install Backtrack 4, the Desktop path is "~/", but I wanted it to be"~/desktop".

On the KDE menu, I went to Settings->System Administration->Paths, and changed it to "~/desktop".

Next thing I know, my computer goes bezzerk... reason being that KDE had the bright idea of moving the entire contents of my home folder into "~/desktop". It even moved the hidden stuff such as ".kde3" and ".mozilla".

I had to exit KDE, move everything back, and re-start KDE. Thankfully nothing got corrupted, but a lot of damage could have been done.

In future I will edit the following file instead of using the GUI:

~/.config/user-dirs.dirs

My suggestion is either:

a) Change the GUI so that it doesn't move all your stuff.

or

b) At least add an option to the GUI that asks if you want everything moved (and give a warning about moving everything from the home folder).

That is likely not the correct file, which is probably located under ~/.kde/share/config/ probably in the file kdeglobals