Seems like it ought to be easy enough, especially as it's never happened before, if memory serves me.
It's just that there are some folders I don't ever use, or which I have already named myself; for example, my folders have always been named in lower case, but now Konqueror is trying to do my thinking for me, so it has created duplicate empty folders such as Music, Templates, Videos, etc., whereas mine are named music, templates, videos, without the upper case. It doesn't rename my folders, or mess with them, it just adds folders that I don't need, have never used, and don't want, but whenever I try to delete them, Konqueror immediately recreates these folders again.
I don't know how I got it like this, as I set up my system like this back in about the years 2006-2008, when I was running KDE3. I want to keep things as I had them. I don't want these duplicates, and don't want just to surrender and rename all my folders in upper case, because that means I would have to go searching through my system for changed file paths.
Anybody have a clue how to change this behavior in Konqueror? Thanks for any help or suggestions!
Bill
William Morder via tde-users composed on 2023-04-16 08:49 (UTC-0700):
Seems like it ought to be easy enough, especially as it's never happened before, if memory serves me.
It's just that there are some folders I don't ever use, or which I have already named myself ....
I never put out any effort about this that I can remember. I simply create empty files using the names of unwanted folders.
On Sunday 16 April 2023 09:41:37 Felix Miata via tde-users wrote:
William Morder via tde-users composed on 2023-04-16 08:49 (UTC-0700):
Seems like it ought to be easy enough, especially as it's never happened before, if memory serves me.
It's just that there are some folders I don't ever use, or which I have already named myself ....
I never put out any effort about this that I can remember. I simply create empty files using the names of unwanted folders.
Not sure what you mean here. How does this stop Konqueror from regenerating these folders?
Or - this just occurred to me - I wonder if a different file manager would also do this. It's been ages since I used Nautilus, Caja, Dolphin, etc. Only Nautilus is sort of okay.
If another file manager does the same, then the system itself would be creating these folders in my home directory. I'll give this a try, just for kicks, but I am dubious. Konqueror has always behaved for me until now.
Bill
Hi Bill!
Anno domini 2023 Sun, 16 Apr 08:49:17 -0700 William Morder via tde-users scripsit:
Seems like it ought to be easy enough, especially as it's never happened before, if memory serves me.
It's just that there are some folders I don't ever use, or which I have already named myself; for example, my folders have always been named in lower case, but now Konqueror is trying to do my thinking for me, so it has created duplicate empty folders such as Music, Templates, Videos, etc., whereas mine are named music, templates, videos, without the upper case. It doesn't rename my folders, or mess with them, it just adds folders that I don't need, have never used, and don't want, but whenever I try to delete them, Konqueror immediately recreates these folders again.
I don't know how I got it like this, as I set up my system like this back in about the years 2006-2008, when I was running KDE3. I want to keep things as I had them. I don't want these duplicates, and don't want just to surrender and rename all my folders in upper case, because that means I would have to go searching through my system for changed file paths.
Anybody have a clue how to change this behavior in Konqueror? Thanks for any help or suggestions!
These come from xdg-somthing-settings. You can use tde control center -> system settings -> paths to change them. Set the folders you don't like to your home directory, log out and in again, then "rmdir ~/*" to get rid of all those empty folders.
alternative: edit .config/user-dirs.dirs by hand, works just the same :)
Nik
Bill
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On Sunday 16 April 2023 10:16:17 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users wrote:
Hi Bill!
Anno domini 2023 Sun, 16 Apr 08:49:17 -0700
William Morder via tde-users scripsit:
Seems like it ought to be easy enough, especially as it's never happened before, if memory serves me.
It's just that there are some folders I don't ever use, or which I have already named myself; for example, my folders have always been named in lower case, but now Konqueror is trying to do my thinking for me, so it has created duplicate empty folders such as Music, Templates, Videos, etc., whereas mine are named music, templates, videos, without the upper case. It doesn't rename my folders, or mess with them, it just adds folders that I don't need, have never used, and don't want, but whenever I try to delete them, Konqueror immediately recreates these folders again.
I don't know how I got it like this, as I set up my system like this back in about the years 2006-2008, when I was running KDE3. I want to keep things as I had them. I don't want these duplicates, and don't want just to surrender and rename all my folders in upper case, because that means I would have to go searching through my system for changed file paths.
Anybody have a clue how to change this behavior in Konqueror? Thanks for any help or suggestions!
These come from xdg-somthing-settings. You can use tde control center -> system settings -> paths to change them. Set the folders you don't like to your home directory, log out and in again, then "rmdir ~/*" to get rid of all those empty folders.
alternative: edit .config/user-dirs.dirs by hand, works just the same :)
Nik
Bill
Greetings, Nik!
I believe I know the underlying cause of this behavior, which is that I just reinstalled my OS. It's been months and months and months, since I've done a reinstallation, but I had a few nagging issues that wouldn't go away, and I decided it was time to do a little housecleaning. But I think I probably forgot about using the TDE control center to manage those paths.
We'll see what happens here. I was pretty sure it couldn't be too hard, because it's been almost 20 years running my system like this, can't remember this happening before.
Bill
William Morder via tde-users wrote:
We'll see what happens here. I was pretty sure it couldn't be too hard, because it's been almost 20 years running my system like this, can't remember this happening before.
XDG developed and as Nik pointed out it is best to use the TCC to set the folder
The advantage of using XDG, is that all desktops are using these directories.
Dr. Nikolaus Klepp composed on 2023-04-16 19:16 (UTC+0200):
These come from xdg-somthing-settings. You can use tde control center -> system settings -> paths to change them. Set the folders you don't like to your home directory, log out and in again, then "rmdir ~/*" to get rid of all those empty folders.
alternative: edit .config/user-dirs.dirs by hand, works just the same :)
Now that you have written this alternative I remember it's what I did many many moons ago. I made one for my LAN server and copy it to ~/.config/ before logging into any X session the first time, but it's been a while since I've created any new users. ;)
I've always symlinked the unwanted /DIRS to the /dirs of my choosing.
E.g., DOWNLOADS to downloads , etc.
Then I move on to bigger problems I need to solve.....
Jonesy
On Sunday 16 April 2023 11:17:33 Marvin Jones via tde-users wrote:
I've always symlinked the unwanted /DIRS to the /dirs of my choosing.
E.g., DOWNLOADS to downloads , etc.
Then I move on to bigger problems I need to solve.....
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bigger, as in all caps?
;-)
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