Permanently removing certain folders from my home

Bad2theBone · #1 1st June 2012, 10:35 PM

I am trying to permanently delete the following folders in my home directory; Downloads, Documents, Music, Videos, Pictures, Public & Templates. I'll delte all 7 of them, then remove reference to them in the user-dirs.dirs file under .config. I can then close and reopen Nautilus and they are gone as they should be. However when I logout and back in again viola they reappear! How do I get rid of them. I have these folders on different filesystems/Logical Volumes in some cases different Volume Groups in my system.

I had tried editing user-dirs.dirs so each one pointed to the equivalent VG/LV/folders, but my mount points are not named the same way. My Downloads equivalent is /pub/dnlds/, as a result the title under computer in the left payne shows up as dnlds and not Downloads. I had even tried symbolic links from actual folder to the corresponding folder in /home, with no luck.

I am running Fedora 17 (the released version) with both Cinnamon and Gnome Shell. Both give me the same results. (I realize that Cinnamon is essentially Gnome Shell with extensions that cause it to behave differently).

jswmcw · #2 2nd June 2012, 12:10 AM

Have you tried setting up the mounts in /etc/fstab? That's what I do. For example:

/pub/dnlds /home/<username>/Downloads none bind

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marko · #3 2nd June 2012, 12:20 AM

Does this make sense? (see this reference)

http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-user-dirs

Maybe you go into /etc/xdg/user-dirs.conf

and set this:

Quote:

enabled=False

then you can do what you want to those directories

A possibly better way is to make a new file in ~/.config/user-dirs.conf
so you're doing the change only per-user and just put the one line in there:

Quote:

enabled=False

so you're only affecting your personal account and not the whole system

oystercatcher · #4 2nd June 2012, 01:20 AM

I have been doing it differently , commenting out the directories
that I was not interested in having ---
/etc/xdg/user-dir.defaults

but I like your way better.

thanks

Bad2theBone · #5 2nd June 2012, 01:46 AM

Marko, thanks that sounds like that is what I was looking for. I will try it later and let you know how it works.

Mario, that did it. I just put the enable=False statement in ~/.config/user-dirs.conf and it worked like a champ. Thanks again.