Accidentally deleted Downloads home directory

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#1

In any desktop environment (take KDE for example), how can I recreate the directory if I accidentally deleted any of Documents, Downloads, Desktop, etc? (Let alone the contents inside them, I know that…)

I mean, they are special directories in comparison to all the rest, right?

Thanks.

#2

Simply create a directory and check that the directory is linked in systemsettings->applications->places

#3

@F_style just remove the config and run xdg-user-dirs-update --force

A fresh MicroOS SelfInstall…

:~> ls
bin
:~> xdg-user-dirs-update --force
:~> ls
bin  Desktop  Downloads  Music  Pictures  Public  Templates  Videos

:~> rm -rf Documents
:~> ls
bin  Desktop  Downloads  Music  Pictures  Public  Templates  Videos

:~> rm .config/user-dirs.dirs
:~> xdg-user-dirs-update --force
:~> ls
bin  Desktop  Downloads  Music  Pictures  Public  Templates  Videos
#4

I suppose they might be special, but they aren’t necessary here in my 15.5 at least:

> ls -gGd Desktop Documents Downloads Music Pictures Public Templates Videos
ls: cannot access 'Music': No such file or directory
ls: cannot access 'Pictures': No such file or directory
ls: cannot access 'Public': No such file or directory
ls: cannot access 'Templates': No such file or directory
ls: cannot access 'Videos': No such file or directory
drwx------  2 1024 Nov 15  2010 Desktop
drwxrwxr-x 10 9216 Jul  5 20:30 Documents
drwxr-xr-x  2 1024 Aug 17 15:33 Downloads

The only time downloads go in my ~/Downloads/ is when I miss or am not given an option to choose my intended location. Most of my downloading is done with a downloader, usually wget, after moving to the download target location. That Aug 17 is there in above output because I had missed clearing a subdir from it that showed up there 5 years ago. I just found and removed it.