Takeshi Abe committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master":
https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/88d46ba32e4a03d848d82210071c42208e0d6eca%5E%21 tdf#119890 followup: Forbid HOME to be the default dir It will be available in 6.3.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libreoffice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1792017 Title: Default directory for my documents is not xdg-user-dir DOCUMENTS Status in LibreOffice: Fix Released Status in libreoffice package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: The default working dir is hard coded to ~/Documents I had to redo my saved work, because I have assumed it was lost in ~/Dokumente I have now fixed this by changing the working directory manually. The default working dir should be changed to "xdg-user-dir DOCUMENTS" that other users so not suffer the same. I have updated from Xenial and never experienced these issues. Is it a kind of regression? libreoffice 1:6.0.3-0ubuntu1 Ubuntu 18.04. LTS To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/df-libreoffice/+bug/1792017/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp