hmmm. good point. The users on the server I'm configuring now will serve as guinea piggs :-) But indeed, I have to sent them a mail about changing the Firefox default download directory. greetings, J. Op 26-09-12 14:35, Nux! schreef: > On 26.09.2012 13:38, Johan Vermeulen wrote: >> this works! commented out all the entry's in >> /etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults. >> >> Thanks for all the answers, now I don't have to explain to 50 users >> they >> have to delete all those folders - or at least not use them. >> >> greetings , J > Johan, > > Be advised that Gnome desktop relies on those directories to be > present, e.g. Firefox downloads go by default in ~/Downloads; there may > be some other issues with not having them. Maybe bigger issues than > having to explain to your users. :) >