Files app in Ubuntu 16.04 has a Download bookmark with a download icon beside it. The bookmark points to $HOME/Downloads.
I wanted to change where it pointed to, but discovered that it's not a bookmark listed under the Menu item, Bookmarks. Instead, it seems to be one of the "special" bookmarks, like Recent, and Desktop.
How can I change where the Downloads "bookmark" points to?
I'm sure there is a proper, clean way to do this by changing the default location of the Downloads directory. The proper, clean way to do this is given by Mook765 below. I suggest you use that.
A simple approach would be to just make $HOME/Downloads into a symlink pointing to wherever you want to keep it. For example, if you want it to point to $HOME/foo, you could do:
mv ~/Downloads ~/foo ## rename the existing dir
ln -s ~/foo ~/Downloads ## create the link
Now, when you click on the Downloads bookmark, it will actually be going to $HOME/foo.
You can define the default user-directories in the file /home/<username>/.config/user-dirs.dirs.
# This file is written by xdg-user-dirs-update # If you want to change or add directories, just edit the line you're # interested in. All local changes will be retained on the next run # Format is XDG_xxx_DIR="$HOME/yyy", where yyy is a shell-escaped # homedir-relative path, or XDG_xxx_DIR="/yyy", where /yyy is an # absolute path. No other format is supported. # 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"
Just browse to the file in your file manager, open it with a double-click, and change the line you are interested in. Save the file. The changes will take effect after your next login.
Make sure that the destination-folder you specify exists!
You can also use the terminal-command
xdg-user-dirs-update --set DOWNLOAD $HOME/yyy or xdg-user-dirs-update --set DOWNLOAD /yyy
to achieve this.
