Can't access my user account Ubuntu 12.04

Question

I have no idea why but it just sends me back to the login screen whenever I try to login my main account. So I made a second account from guest account and used nautilus as sudo(root) and checked my home main user files and all that is there is:

Access-Your-Private-Data.desktop and README.txt

But I don't understand I haven't encrypted my drive so what do I do to get my data back, I would really like to get it back I can't understand what has happened.

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Oct 08 '15 at 09:45

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Faced the same situation when I was using 11.10. Here is how I solved it:

At log in screen, press Ctrl + Alt + F1
login with your username/password
ls -Shla | grep “Xauthority”
sudo mv .Xauthority Xauthority.old
sudo shutdown -r now

Source.

edited Oct 08 '15 at 09:45

hg8

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answered Feb 16 '13 at 22:04

abhishek

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 08 '15 at 09:46

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Press Ctrl + Alt + F1.
cd to your home directory and delete the .Xauthority & .ICEauthority files in your home directory and then try to login.

p.s : Try to check your Display manager too

edited Oct 08 '15 at 09:46

hg8

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answered Feb 16 '13 at 22:18

Arush Salil

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 30 '13 at 14:05

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Thanks for the advice but I've fixed it now. Those files didn't exist in the users home directory.

I created a new account and coppied all the files I needed. Then deleted the old user account.

answered Mar 30 '13 at 14:05

SC7639

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Can't access my user account Ubuntu 12.04

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