Originally Posted by Malatesta

Thanks. Actually, my users-dirs.dirs seems to be okay, i.e. it just looks as it should. Maybe somehow the permissions were changed. Doing a
ls -lsa | grep .dirs

gives me:

-rw--------

for user-dirs.dirs

Got a hunch that this may be wrong... Otherwise, I'm stuck...

Originally Posted by thedead1440

Discoveryellow,

You don't need to use nano to check the file; that's for editing it...

Do this in terminal and post the output:

Code:

cat /home/user/.config/user-dirs.dirs

Basically you need to ensure your output matches the below and no if not in open mode no devel-su for /home/user/ files:

Code:

~ $ cat /home/user/.config/user-dirs.dirs 
# This file is written by xdg-user-dirs-update
# If you want to change or add directories, just edit the line you're
# interested in. All local changes will be retained on the next run
# Format is XDG_xxx_DIR="$HOME/yyy", where yyy is a shell-escaped
# homedir-relative path, or XDG_xxx_DIR="/yyy", where /yyy is an
# absolute path. No other format is supported.
# 
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/MyDocs"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/MyDocs/Downloads"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/MyDocs"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/MyDocs"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/MyDocs/Documents"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/MyDocs/Music"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/MyDocs/Pictures"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/MyDocs/Movies"