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I'm attempting to rename my special folders. As per my understanding, there are two ways to specify this.

  1. Local, ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs
  2. Global, /etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults

I've changed both locations to my desired configuration. But everytime I do xdg-user-dirs-update, it removes all my settings and rewrites it to point to $HOME.

Why is this happening? I can't see anything in the documentation I'm missing.

Would it hurt me just to disable the feature and make my own folders?

phisshion
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  • possible duplicate of Rename default user directories also How to define completely new xdg-user-dirs? – αғsнιη Oct 02 '14 at 06:12
  • Unfortunately, this is a different situation. I've followed both threads, but this keeps happening.

    I edit both files to reflect the structure I want. Then I update or relog, and everything is reset to $HOME/.

     – phisshion Oct 02 '14 at 06:17
  • Where are your folders located? If they're not accessible/non-existent when you update, the folders will be reset to $HOME. – muru Oct 02 '14 at 07:03
  • Do the folders you'd like to use as user dirs already exist? If not, xdg-user-dirs-update seems to disable the corresponding user dirs by setting their $XDG_*_DIR variables to $HOME. So, to fix this, make sure to first create the directories and then run xdg-user-dirs-update. Then your ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs shouldn't change, either. – balu Jan 11 '18 at 23:55

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