Desktop as one sole folder

I had a lot of files on my desktop. Once I inserted all of them in one single folder and named that folder "Desktop".
After that I cannot create any other files on the desktop. When I try to do so, it says I have no permission but doesn't explain what to do.
The only way I can use my desktop is through that folder named "Desktop". It is very inconvenient. I want to get rid of it, but it's not deletable.
Please help my find solutions.

Nope - otherwise it would show up as being answered and it would show his reply as the one that answered it
Only the original poster (you) can mark whatever you feel is the answer that helped you solve the problem. It's customary to give that credit to the people who helped most solve your problem. Sometimes it's hard to choose, but do what you think best and everyone will appreciate not having to read a discussion that has already been answered and go and help someone who hasn't got the help they are looking for.
Some really difficult problems never get "answers" but they usually have a lot of good comments that other people might get help from. But it's really great when you look for a problem that sounds exactly like yours and you see one that has an answer (the green checkmark) and a dozen that don't - you know you want to read that green check marked one first and have a good chance of getting a quick answer to a problem...
There are two things as the original poster you can do - you can mark things that helped you (not sure how many of these you can do, but at least one) and/or you can mark things that "answered" the original question. I think you can even do both. So if you got several that helped you can mark then all I think, and if you got several that answered then you should pick the one that was the "best" answer, but only one can be the answer, and as soon as you say it's answered then that kind of tells the discussion software to mark that question answered and give it the green check box and everyone can go on to something else.

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