Files gone from desktop. How do I get them to show back up?

All my files have disappeared from my desktop, but when I look under finder and desktop all my files are still there. How do I get them to show up back on my desktop? Is there some button that I hit or some shortcut to use. New to Mac and not sure what I did.

Do a backup.
Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Select Library. Then go to Prefrerences/com.apple.desktop.plist and com.apple.finder.plist. Move the .plists to your desktop.
Re-launch Finder by restarting and test. If it works okay, delete the plists from the desktop.
If the same, return the .plists to where you got it from, overwriting the newer one.
Thanks to leonie for some information contained in this.

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