Comment 16 for bug 623708

This has happened to me recently. I have logged in and all my GNOME preferences went missing, and my home directory contained a lot of directories similar to the ones in comment #13. After re-logging in (maybe a few times, I might have not checked my home dir), my GNOME settings were still missing, but my directories and files are back. It seems to me as if after one login my home directory wasn't mounted properly and GNOME has recreated the settings and default directories, as they seemed to be missing, and when it's finally mounted them properly, it uses the ones it's created, since it now has duplicate directories (maybe it's overwritten the old ones, I can't tell because regardless which of the duplicate directories I enter, I end up in the same directory).