Accidently removed pictures folder

Question

Hello I accidently deleted the pictures folder and retsored it but now it is not appearing in navigation bar.

Attaching the image The folder is restored but it is not showing in navigation bar along with home,music etc

Thanks kenn for resolving the issue.

There are a couple of questions already answered on this subject, but I can’t get them to work on 22.04. What version of Ubuntu are you using? There are some answers here https://askubuntu.com/questions/79150/how-do-i-remove-places-entries-from-the-nautilus-sidebar that might help. — Will, Nov 15 '22 at 16:56
run this in terminal xdg-user-dirs-update --set PICTURES ~/Pictures — kenn, Nov 15 '22 at 17:07
Please don't post screenshots of text files. Copy and paste the content directly in the question and then format the pasted text as code using the {_} icon above the edit window. You can also copy the output from a terminal using a mouse. — user68186, Nov 15 '22 at 17:13
The screenshot of the cat user-dirs.dirs show an existing line: XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/". Try editing this line and make it point to the correct folder: XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Pictures". Rather than adding a new line. — user68186, Nov 15 '22 at 17:16
Hi kenn. Thanks for helping me.Your code worked perfectly and restored my pictures folder. — Mohul Chakraborty, Nov 16 '22 at 08:39

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 15 '22 at 17:04

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Enter the new ~/Pictures directory in Nautilus and hit Ctrl+D.

answered Nov 15 '22 at 17:04

MDeBusk

Hello,I am new to Linux.Please explain me what is nautiles. – Mohul Chakraborty Nov 15 '22 at 17:20
@MohulChakraborty "Nautilus" is the file manager you're using. Ubuntu's GUI calls it "Files." – MDeBusk Nov 15 '22 at 19:09
@MDeBusk - I don’t think that’s quite the same - I think that adds the directory to the lower (bookmarks) section of the left side. It’s not far off what is wanted, but I’m interested to see if there’s a way to restore the original feature. The previous questions have answers that don’t work on 22.04. I wonder if those files are now obsolete as editing them doesn’t seem to change anything. – Will Nov 15 '22 at 20:55
@Will It's not quite the same, no, but it gets the OP something of what they lost and it's easy to do. Considering the difficulty they're having with other approaches, I thought it best to mention it.
I suspect, but only suspect, that the OP has yet to log out and back in after editing the file. They don't seem to be obsolete here; I messed one of them up a few weeks ago and my startup files failed to be read until I realized what I'd done wrong.
– MDeBusk Nov 15 '22 at 21:08

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