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chamiltonccn
11 months agoNew Contributor
Yeah I'm not sure why we decided to use that particular system to determine the downloads folder.
Well, it's a fairly common thing across multiple Linux distros so I'd imagine that had something to do with it :-)
That being said (and for the potential benefit of future readers of this thread) the drive must have become unmounted at some point and then some time later xdg-user-dirs-update
executed, and that's how ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs
got broken. To test this, I intentionally unmounted the drive where my downloads folder lives, then executed xdg-user-dirs-update
, and I received the following message upon execution:
/home/chamilton/Downloads was removed, reassigning DOWNLOAD to homedir
So mystery solved, thanks again for the assist!