Seems like others recently have had the same issue on 22.04: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1483018/home-user-desktop-and-public- folders-show-as-type-link-broken-inode-symlink
Also on 20.04: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1482903/home-directories- turned-into-symbolic-links-without-telling-me-the-reason These posts are recent ~1 month. Temporary fix is to have at least one file in the folders so as to avoid them being deleted. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to xdg-user-dirs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2036597 Title: Strange permissions and/or links to default directories in home folder (Music, Pictures, Public, Templates and Videos)) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xdg-user-dirs/+bug/2036597/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
