16 Apr
2023
16 Apr
'23
8:49 a.m.
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
16 Apr
16 Apr
9:41 a.m.
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.
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10:03 a.m.
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):
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
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. 
10:16 a.m.
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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10:34 a.m.
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:
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
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
>
>
10:55 a.m.
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. ;)
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Felix Miata
11:17 a.m.
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
12:17 p.m.
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.....
Jonesy
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bigger, as in all caps?
;-)
Bill
17 Apr
17 Apr
3:43 a.m.
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.
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