I was sick of having two different desktop folders in Mac OS 9 and OS X, so I decided to combine them into one. Here's how I did it
- I fired up the terminal app and found out where everything lived:
OS 9 desktop folder = /Desktop Folder/
OS X desktop folder = /Users/username/Desktop
- I deleted the folder from /Users/username/Desktop with an rm -R Desktop
- I logged in as root and did a ln -s /Desktop Folder/ Users/username/Desktop

