Originally Posted by juiceme

Well, I know one failure mode that can cause that, it's rare but it's possible as it happened to me once.

See, if for some reason your device cannot mount /dev/mmcblk0p3 as /home on boot, then it will create a new /home for you off your /root partition. An indication to that is if the first boot after it happens takes somewhat longer as usual.

What's the problem with this: All the stuff that was on your /home is now not accessible, instead the device looks like "new", if you had any backgrounds set, or icons grouped into subfolders or anything, that is resetted to the way the device was in beginnig.

Your previous data is not lost, however. It's still on the partition that's just not mounted anywhere any longer

To see if that's the case, go to console and give command "mount | grep mmcblk0p3"

You should see something like this:

Code:

~ $ 
~ $ mount | grep mmcblk0p3
/dev/mmcblk0p3 on /home type ext4 (rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro,barrier=1,stripe=8,data=ordered)
~ $

If you do not see the line above, then the problem is as I described.

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"