I want to set custom locations for Document, Pictures, Videos and Music folders in elementary OS. This is the method I followed.
/etc/xdg/user-dirs.conf
# This controls the behaviour of xdg-user-dirs-update which is run on user login
# You can also have per-user config in ~/.config/user-dirs.conf, or specify
# the XDG_CONFIG_HOME and/or XDG_CONFIG_DIRS to override this
#
enabled=False
# This sets the filename encoding to use. You can specify an explicit
# encoding, or "locale" which means the encoding of the users locale
# will be used
filename_encoding=UTF-8
~/.config/user-dirs.dirs
# This file is written by xdg-user-dirs-update
# If you want to change or add directories, just edit the line you're
# interested in. All local changes will be retained on the next run
# Format is XDG_xxx_DIR="$HOME/yyy", where yyy is a shell-escaped
# homedir-relative path, or XDG_xxx_DIR="/yyy", where /yyy is an
# absolute path. No other format is supported.
#
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Templates"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Public"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="/media/user/Media/Downloads"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="/media/user/Media/Documents"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="/media/user/Media/Music"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="/media/user/Media/Pictures"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="/media/user/Media/Videos"
I used the command xdg-user-dirs-update
after editing these files. And also tried logging out and in and restarting the system too. But nothing worked. The pantheon-files still goes to the default $HOME/Documents path.
Can anyone tell what's wrong here or another workaround to achieve my purpose?