Fixing an old computer bug

A screenshot picture of an error message.
Are computers even smart?

The error message says to check the spelling. Ok. The spelling is wrong. The folders should all have lowercase names.

One of the first things that I do after installing Ubuntu is edit "~/.config/user-dirs.dirs" so that all folder names are lowercase. I then run "xdg-user-dirs-update" to save the changes. This doesn't seem to change this menu though. So, it seems to be a settings issue. The place to look for settings is the "~/.config" folder. A simple search with grep shows the answer:

user@computer:~/.config$ grep -r "Downloads" *
gtk-3.0/bookmarks:file:///home/user/Downloads

Wow. That was easy. Editing the "~/.config/gtk-3.0/bookmarks" file fixed the problem.

When I searched the internet, I did find one other person who had this problem and a different solution. I think that the search engines have forgotten. This bug was an issue some number of years ago, so there should have been more results. It is probably good to blog this stuff to put more information out there. The person who it helps might be you!

So, yeah, I did this and it changed my life.