lost *all* settings; and more!

[James Tyrer]

Zorael wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Anne Wilson
> <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> On Saturday 12 December 2009 10:03:04 spir wrote:
>>> After the action of changing the download folder to /import,
>>> suddenly my home dir was nearly empty; even hidden files had
>>> disappeared.
>>> 
>> When you change those paths you are asked whether you want to move
>> all the data from the original path to the new one.  It sounds as
>> though you said 'yes'.
> 
> Perhaps twice now my ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs has been reset to point
>  all paths to $HOME, despite the system-wide defaults (in 
> /etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults) being an exact copy of my wanted 
> settings. I haven't been able to figure out what caused this.

It has happened to me also, but not with the current release.

> In my case the paths are on a different NTFS partition, but I don't
> recall it ever failing to mount.
> 
> See http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8320656 for another
> example.
> 
> The user *is* asked whether to move all files to the new directory,
> so in a sense it's only done as told. But I'd argue there should be a
>  check to see if the entire home is being moved, as that would undo
> the setting to begin with and bork the user completely.
> 
Yes, since that will break the user's file system, that option should 
not be offered if the path was set to $HOME.  This is a bug and you 
should report it.

-- 
James Tyrer

Linux (mostly) From Scratch
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