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Thunderbird and Firefox are creating unwanted Downloads and Documents folders in my home directory

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I am running on Linux. I keep downloads in ~/tmp/ and documents in ~/docs/

Both Thunderbird and Firefox are configured to save downloads/attachments in ~/tmp/ (and they do) but still when either application is started it will create a Downloads directory and occasionally also Documents. I'll delete these directories, but every now and then something triggers their creation.

What am I doing wrong? How can I stop this behavior?

I am running on Linux. I keep downloads in ~/tmp/ and documents in ~/docs/ Both Thunderbird and Firefox are configured to save downloads/attachments in ~/tmp/ (and they do) but still when either application is started it will create a Downloads directory and occasionally also Documents. I'll delete these directories, but every now and then something triggers their creation. What am I doing wrong? How can I stop this behavior?

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Wayne Mery
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As answered at https://www.reddit.com/r/Thunderbird/comments/1k1gc6r/thunderbird_and_firefox_are_creating_unwanted/

I'm told these are part of xdg spec. So this is expected behavior.