symlink persist?

[Grizzly]

Wednesday, September 20, 2023  at 21:44, Colin Law wrote:
Re: symlink persist? (at least in part)

>On Wed, 20 Sept 2023 at 19:26, Grizzly via ubuntu-users
><ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

>> Hi

>> I fired up 23.10, renamed my Pictures dir (to falbackPictures), then
>> $ln -s path_to_22.04_home_Pictures Pictures
>> $ls Pictures
<snipped>
>> shutdown now -r
>> on reboot background had defaulted to a Lobster (not Minotaur ??)
>> went to Settings, now cant see contents of Pictures to set background

>I suspect the problem is to do with the fact that the folders
>Pictures, Documents and several others are special.  Have a look in
>~/.config/user-dirs.dirs and you will see something like
># 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"
<snipped>
>XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Videos"

>Possibly adjusting the contents will help.

It got rewritten on reboot