KDE 4.3 keeps restoring my important paths to default

[edke]

Hello guys.

This is my main issue with latest KDE 4.3 under Jaunty or latest Karmic. It keeps restoring my important paths defined in System Settings -> About me -> Paths to default values.

Everytime I change these settings to my desired values (I hate folders with uppercase), after restarting and logging back to my KDE account settings are restored and in my ~ folder there are new default folders created.

I tried to edit ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs file, changing it's attributes so it can't be modified, but no luck. Everytime it's restored back to defaults and it's very annoying.

My ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs looks like this:

# 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="$HOME/yyy", where yyy is a shell-escaped
# homedir-relative path, or XDG_xxx_DIR="/yyy", where /yyy is an
# absolute path. No other format is supported.
#
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/"
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Downloads"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documents"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Music"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Pictures"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Videos"

[Rog131]

Re: KDE 4.3 keeps restoring my important paths to default

Have you tried to disable the xdg-user-dirs ?

Settings

Sysadmins can configure things by editing /etc/xdg/user-dirs.conf. At the moment there are only two settings, you can disable the whole thing, and you can specify the charset encoding used for filenames. They can also set or change the default directories and their initial values in /etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults.

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[edke]

Re: KDE 4.3 keeps restoring my important paths to default

No, I didn't. But creating those folders after creating new user is a good thing. I found a workaround, to edit ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs by hand and remove trailing / at the end of path. Somehow KDE gui settings alters this config in a way XDG Home Dirs doesn't like and restores it. After modifying file by hand folders are not restored anymore

[finny388]

Re: KDE 4.3 keeps restoring my important paths to default

Same thing happens to me (9.10).

This seems like fundamental bug. I have no room on my primary partition to save files.

Is this being addressed or do I have to to edit ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs manually?

[finny388]

Re: KDE 4.3 keeps restoring my important paths to default

anyone

[verndog]

Re: KDE 4.3 keeps restoring my important paths to default

Same thing happens to me (9.10).

This seems like fundamental bug. I have no room on my primary partition to save files.

Is this being addressed or do I have to to edit ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs manually?

If you used root to delete stuff you might want to check its trash can.

What does 'df- h' show.