Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: mediascanner2 (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/285998
Title:
mv or rm of any XDG user dir causes its definition to change to wrong,
oversimple $HOME/
Status in Media Scanner v2:
New
Status in “mediascanner2” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in “xdg-user-dirs” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
$ rmdir ~/Videos
...
$ mkdir ~/Videos
Hours later, find apps doing crazy things in home directory.
During the elided period between rmdir and mkdir, if the XDG functions
were run, the user's intent is forever lost, and its value is set to
the user's home directory.
Apps can not rely on XDG functions not to lie about what the user wants. It
prefers to say what exists, not now when the app is accessing it, but when the
XDG functions ran. It does not provide a file descriptor for an
open_at(2) call. It provides a stale, text name of what used to exist on
disk, and often not even what the user wanted.
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