I figured out what is going on. My Templates folder is on removable
media which fstab mounts automatically. When I boot and the media is
removed, xdg-user-dirs-update runs and is moving the path from
~/Templates to ~ when it sees that the folder is missing. To fix the
problem, I had to manually edit .config/user-dirs.dirs to correct the
path to the templates folder.
I don't see any reason for xdg-user-dirs-update to change the path just
because the folder is temporarily missing or moved. The expected
behavior would be that moving the Templates folder would break the right
click > Create Document functionality, and moving it back would fix the
problem, but after xdg-user-dirs-update runs (every boot) the
functionality is broken permanently which is very confusing to the user.
** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => New
** Also affects: xdg-user-dirs (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
** Summary changed:
- Right click > Create Document option no longer lists docs from my Templates
folder
+ Right click > Create Document breaks if Templates folder is missing when
Gnome is restarted
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Right click > Create Document breaks if Templates folder is missing when Gnome
is restarted
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/451474
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