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Change default user folders path?

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In previous releases of Ubuntu, I used Ubuntu Tweak to change the paths to the user folders (Music, Documents, Videos, etc). I can't find an option in Gnome 3 to do this, and Ubuntu Tweak's ppa still has no version for Oneiric.

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answered 12 Months ago lintical · Accepted Answer

Open a terminal and write this command:

gedit ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs

Each row is a user folder definition (music, video...), edit as you want. For example, I did not want the videos folder in home, but in a separate disk, and changed the XDG_VIDEOS_DIR parameter this way:

XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="/media/share/Video"

OR simply run:

xdg-user-dirs-update --set VIDEOS "/media/share/Video"

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