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Ventolinmono
Asked: 2023-08-21 00:15:17 +0800 CST

home/user/Desktop and Public Folders Show as Type Link (broken) (inode/symlink)

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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS asked me for an update which I did and apparently everything went ok but upon restarting all my home folders appeared in my Desktop.

Looking into my home folder I found out that home/user/Desktop and Public folders show as: Type Link (broken) (inode/symlink). The rest of user folders have different permissions ("Create and delete files") but this file only gives me the options of "Read and write" an "Read-only".

By doing ls -lid to these files as suggested by Raffa, I get:

1334600 lrwxrwxrwx 1 user user 19 ago 19 11:40 Desktop -> /home/user/Desktop

and

1334614 lrwxrwxrwx 1 user user 18 ago 19 11:40 Public -> /home/user/Public

How can I fix this?

I'm currently on 22.04.3 LTS.

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I solved it this way:

    As suggested by https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=198238 I checked that typing

    cat $HOME/.config/user-dirs.dirs | grep DESKTOP

    showed

    XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/"

    instead of

    XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop"

    Then I followed this solution How to set the desktop to $HOME/Desktop?

    1. First I deleted all the broken folders
    rm Desktop Templates Public Music Videos
    1. I created new folders
    mkdir Desktop Templates Public Music Videos
    1. Then I edited configuration file: Typing in the terminal
    gedit ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs

    I added the missing folders to make it look like this:

    XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop" 
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Download"  
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"
    1. Save the configuration file, and after logging out and in the problem was solved
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