I cant add any icons to my desktop

I did have a utilities folder and stickies as icons on my desktop but i just noticed that today they're gone. So i went to finder and looked at the desktop from there and both are in that folder I just can't move them to the actual desktop. anyone know what is going on? thanks

Ditto here. 'circle with slash' symbol whenever i try to put icons on the desktop.
first discovered the problem when i tried to attach a file to an email. When i clicked on the desktop in the side bar it would not open. All the other shortcuts to documents, download etc. worked fine. Next I tried opening the desktop in a finder window. Now it gets really weird. I click on the shortcut in the sidebar and the Mail program opens up. It acts like I had attached my desktop folder to an email. Tried many different ways to get my desktop to open but none were successful. I don't know what I would've done anyways because there were no icons on the desktop. Finally I tried right-clicking on the desktop folder when it appeared in the email. I selected 'show package contents'. Tah-da! There were my desktop files with the added folders 'quick look' and 'contents'. I was able to copy my folders to my documents and open them with no problem. I am still unable to move files onto the desktop and the desktop folder stills opens in mail. at least my files are ok. I'll try deleting the desktop folder and restart.

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