Editing ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs does not permanently change user directory locations

[inorman]

After upgrading to Karmic 64bit from Jaunty 64bit, My desktop icons were replaced with the contents of my user "home" folder. I typically run a custom location for the user directories and locations of such folders as the "Music" folder and "Documents" folder.
I do this by editing ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs. as follows:

XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Documents/UbuntuDesktop"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Documents/Downloads"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documents"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Documents/My Music"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Documents/My Pictures"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Documents/My Videos"

After editing and saving, a restart of nautilus with "sudo killall nautilus" will then restore my user directories to their normal locations.
If I restart the computer or reset the X Session, the folder locations revert back to the following and all my previous changes are lost.

XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documents"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/"

Basically, I can't move my user directories permanently to a different location on the computer.

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Hello
is this problem present with the latest updated Karmic's or Lucid's packages ?
Thanks in advance
Fabio

[inorman (inorman88)]

No, I believe that upgrading to Lucid fixed this issue.
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Ian

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Fabio Marconi <email address hidden>wrote:

> Hello
> is this problem present with the latest updated Karmic's or Lucid's
> packages ?
> Thanks in advance
> Fabio
>
> ** Changed in: ubuntu
> Status: New => Incomplete
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> Editing ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs does not permanently change user directory
> locations
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/465098
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[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Hello inorman
Thanks for the reply
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[otternox (otternox)]

I'm using ubuntu 13.04 and seeing this bug again. I'm trying to change the location of my music folder to another partition, but on every reboot, nautilus seems to change it back. Same as above really.

[Seb Bonnard (sebma)]

Hi, can you change your "~/.config/user-dirs.dirs" once again and type this :

echo "enabled=false" > ~/.config/user-dirs.conf

and reboot to see if it works