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I just switched my Ubuntu system language from French to English. I have been asked if I wanted to create new folders (Desktop, Pictures, ...), I said yes. My old files were not moved, but now I have a Bureau (French for Desktop) and a Desktop folder. When I create a folder on my desktop using GUI, the folder is actually created in the old Bureau folder. What should I do to stop having the old French folders getting used (which I guess would also work for other folders)?

EDIT: it is not answered by Language change in Ubuntu - files not transfered to new paths because it does not answer to why "When I create a folder on my desktop using GUI, the folder is actually created in the old Bureau folder"

It get fixed, probably when I restarted a second time. So I needed to restart once for getting the new folders, and another time to get the GUI Desktop to work as expected.

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Modify the folder entries in the /home/<user>/.config/user-dirs.dirs file to make them fit your needs, to do it just open a terminal and execute : nano /home/<user>/.config/user-dirs.dirs
Press Ctrl + X to close the file and confirm the changes by pressing Y - log out and back in ...

Note : Replace <user> in the provided command with your user name.
Here an example with the default content of the user-dirs.dirs file ->

XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop"  
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Downloads"  
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Templates"  
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Public"  
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documents"  
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Music"  
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Pictures"  
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Videos"

When you change the content of your file to matching these entries, all folders should be in English.
Additionally check the /home/<user>/.config/user-dirs.locale file if the content is en_US or another English language, if it's not change it : nano /home/<user>/.config/user-dirs.locale

Note : Sometimes logging out and back in for whatever reason is not sufficient, but a reboot "fixes" it.

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