Desktop Folder is now a Text File

Hi there!
I tried searching the forums for answers with no luck. Somehow, my desktop folder became a text file. So when I click on it, a plain text document opens with a bunch of jibberish. Is there a way to change it back to a folder?
Your input would greatly be appreciated.
Thanks!

Here's a screen shot so you can see what I'm talking about. Notice the document icon instead of a folder icon.
Message was edited by: Manuel Izaguirre1

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I owned an HP Pavilion A6037C desktop computer (Running Vista). It began to give me serious issues in July so i used the HP System Backup and Restore program to create a backup of all my files. i saved these files on an external HD so i wouldn't lose my files if the computer crashed. This backup was created in a folder called MINWINPC. In that folder was this file name "Backup Files 2011-5-7 234595". in that folder was a file list
Backup.001.App
Backup.002.fbw
Backup.003.fbw
Backup.004.fbw
and so on ....
I have since removed the first computer (although i still have it in my posession), and have replaced it with an HP Pavilion P6245f desktop running Windows 7.
Now that i have a newer desktop in place i wanted to install some of my old files from my backup that is saved on my external hard drive. i've connected the external hard drive to the new computer and i've ran the Backup.001.App. It restored my old files to a folder on my desktop called "Shortcut to System Recovery Files". It's a rather large file (i believe 50 GB) that is stored in another folder titled "C". In this folder i can see the seperate file folders i'm assuming were from my original desktop. when i access my username and select for instance "My Pictures" folder, it shows a list of all my orginal files. When i double click a picture, it says :
"File not readable. You can not open this file. Please check the readability of this file."
when i try to open any other type of file (such as .pdf's or word documents, or spreadsheets), it basically says the same thing.
"Can not access the document C:\(filelocation). The document may already be open or a read only document. The name and path may be invalid. The document may no longer exist, or it may already be open".
PLEASE HELP   All i want to do is restore my pictures, documents, and emails .   HOW CAN I RESTORE THESE FILES TO MY NEW COMPUTER ????????

What are the text files that suddenly showed up in the Preferences folder?

I just noticed a group of text files in the Preferences folder that I haven't noticed before. All of them were created within a 3-minute period on 12/31/2008. The names are in sets of 4 or 5 that follow this scheme:
np_334572current
np_334572services
np_334572servicesnew
np_334572sets
np_334572system
The default app to open these is Property List Editor.
They haven't been modified since they were created, even though I've been adding, deleting, and modifying apps and their preferences since then. Anybody know what they are? Can or should I delete these?
Thanks in advance.

Dick,
To be honest I don't know what program they are related to. However If the files are located in ~/Library/Preferences (Where is ~ = your home directory) Then You should be safe in moving/deleting them, at worst you will have to reset the settings in one of your apps. What that folder is mainly used for is say for example you have your dock show/hide it self. That will be saved to a plist file in the preferences folder. If you delete or move the dock's plist out of there your dock on your next login will go back to the default view of Mac OS.
Now To be honest you don't have to move/delete those files that are there, especially since at most you will probably reset some of the preferences you set in an application. But its up to you. Also you could always move it first to see what app it is and either move it back or delete it later.
Hope that helps,
Weston

Output folder contents into text file

Hello, everyone.
I am new to automator, and I'd like to learn how to use it. Recently, someone asked me if there was a way that they could select a folder and somehow dump the filenames of all items in that folder (non-recursively) to a text file. It seems to me that this is the sort of thing that Automator would be able to do. Can anyone give me some tips on how I might go about doing this?
I also figured this might be possible with a custom bash command. I am more experienced with bash and Unix command line, so if there is a better option there, please let me know. I just figured I would check here first.
Thanks!

That does work, but the only problem is that the folder who's contents are being exported will be different every time. (I see now that I didn't specify that in my first post). Ideally, he would either be given an option to select a folder to read, or he would just be able to drag and drop the folder onto an application (or into terminal) and have it perform this task.

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