Wow, this bugginess is still around in 16.04. Today after a minor upgrade this offer to change folders came up. I initially declined the offer but when it persisted I accepted and my Download folder with 13 GB of data disappeared - poof - and was replaced with an empty Download folder. Fortunately, after reading the above comments it seemed the data was still around and turned out to be fairly easy to locate. The Download folder was tucked away in Home's .cache folder. A new Download folder had been created, so it was a simple matter to merge the two and everything is now back to normal. What fun :-/
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xdg-user-dirs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/209513 Title: After upgrade, "Update standard folders to current language" threatens to rename your home folder Status in xdg-user-dirs package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Occurs during: * Ubuntu Gutsy upgrade to Hardy beta * Ubuntu 8.04.1 routine updates * Ubuntu 8.04.1 upgrade to Intrepid beta After upgrading, this dialog appears: Update standard folders to current language? You have logged in in a new language. You can automatically update the names of some standard folders in your home folder to match this language. The update would change the following folders: Current folder name: New folder name: /home/jamie /home/jamie/Videos Note that existing content will not be moved. WTF? (My home directory _is_ /home/jamie). What is this trying to do? Will it rename my home directory? Or is it just updating default directory where Nautilus searches? Or where downloaded files are saved?? (There's no Help button, btw.) The only sane thing is to say "No, thanks" (i.e. "Keep old names"). Perhaps that's the wrong answer, but the dialog text isn't clear about what this change does, so I'd be foolish to say yes. Either (1) this shouldn't appear and show those paths, it's a bug, or (2) this dialog is correct, but the text should be better at saying that it's safe and merely changes default paths of no great consequence. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xdg-user-dirs/+bug/209513/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
