Linking

[oldfred]

I have never changed my .config/user-dirs.dirs.

Very first time I moved all data from my folders in /home to my data partition and then deleted old folder in /home. Tested first with one smaller folder.
I had backup just in case.
And then mounted data partition in /mnt/data (could be anywhere) and linked from data partition folder back into /home. Once that worked I did the rest.
But now scripted it as I do it with every new install and know data partitions in /home are empty.

More details.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2315714
Splitting home directory discussion and details:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1811198
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1901437
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...hlight=%2Fdata

[ayudha]

Doesn't work
I did this for it to work:

Create /home/erik/.config/user-dirs.conf

enabled=false

But do i really need this file?

Change /home/erik/.config/user-dirs.dirs to

XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Bureaublad"XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Downloads"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="/home/erik/Overige/Documenten"

Change /home/erik/.config/gtk-3.0/bookmarks to

file:///home/erik/Overige Overige

Could somebody tell me how i make all of this inside a script to run?

And how do i open the filesmanger in a different (default) directory? (home/erik/Overige)

Edit: i also could not find how to remove 'Recent' and 'Starred', do any of you know how this is done?

But those links don't address this...

[oldfred]

I do not change /home/fred/.config/user-dirs.dirs
Then these still show in file browser.

XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Downloads"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Templates"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Public"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documents"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Music"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Pictures"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Videos"

ls -l /mnt  # I have others but this is for linking.
drwxrwxrwx 17 fred fred 4096 Oct 19  2019 data

Then in /home I have the links to the folders that are in the /mnt/data above.

Example but many (l means it is a link):

lrwxrwxrwx 1 fred fred    19 Oct 14 19:37  Documents -> /mnt/data/Documents
lrwxrwxrwx 1 fred fred    19 Oct 14 19:37  Downloads -> /mnt/data/Downloads

If you follow the procedure I posted, then it works.

[ayudha]

Could you explain the meaning of drwxrwxrwx 17 fred fred 4096 Oct 19 2019 data

[oldfred]

In my /mnt folder I create /mnt/data.
Then I add a mount of my data partition in fstab.
Details in links I posted above.

[ayudha]

I seriously can seem to make this work like i want it.

Remove from filesmanager on ubuntu (popos):
Recent, Starred, Desktop, Afbeeldingen, Documenten, Muziek, Videos (all are in Home, except for Recent and Starred)

Then add: (these should be permanent, even on a restart, no manual mounting)Overige (dev/sda3)
Computer (/) but needs to be renamed to Linux

Also, screenshots are automaticly saved in Afbeeldingen when i remove it screenshots are no longer working. These should be saved in Downloads instead.


This way i only have:
- Home
- Linux
- Downloads
- Overige

[oldfred]

Not sure what you are trying to do.
When in file browser and default location of home you will see all the default folders plus any you add. You also can add bookmarks to other folders.
Different flavors of Ubuntu use different file browsers, so slightly different ways to configure them.
Removing folders would require you to edit ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs, but never seen that done & it may break some apps that expect default locations to save to.