"Locations - System Settings" not persisting after power cycle. Do I need a delay between automounting drives and spawning KDE?

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Disable the user service

Not necessary

More the or :slight_smile:

You are using KDE and I remember the issue has been discussed some time ago.

The folders is read by xdg and is stored in ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs - so editing that file will override what is set for the locale.

➜  ~ cat .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="$HOME/yyy", where yyy is a shell-escaped
# homedir-relative path, or XDG_xxx_DIR="/yyy", where /yyy is an
# absolute path. No other format is supported.
# 
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$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"

My personal approach is to convert the folders in $HOME to symlinks e.g.

rm ~/Documents
ln -s /path/to/documents ~/Documents

I have been using such setup for years with no issues.

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