I have run into a recurring issue with nearly every installed Debian that I used to create remasters. The most recent remaster of Debian 8 Mate 64 Bit this time, had the same issue come up as has happened for years. I have no idea how this happens though I have found a temporary fix. I am actually not 100 % certain this error is being created via the creation of a remaster. It may be related to Debian or Mate or an issue with XDG.
What keeps happening is that I will start up my computers and find that the folders from /home/??? have been placed onto my desktop. When I look into the file manager my named home /folder/??? has been renamed Desktop.
I can restore my folders by deleting /home/???/.config/user-dirs.dirs and then logging out and in again.
The error will at some random time recur. I would love to know how to stop this from happening, and I wonder if my remasters are passing along whatever is causing this, to new installs?
The user-dirs.dirs file can be edited to use absolute paths(works), but I do not know if this will actually stop the issue from happening, but also I wonder if using an absolute path, will mess up the remastering when this file is copied to /etc/skel The absolute path contains my user name in /home
Any ideas?