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goltrek

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(Solved) Change folders to Brazilian Portuguese

Hello!
How do I change the folders to Brazilian Portuguese?
Obs.: In the installation I chose Brazilian Portuguese.

Thanks!

Last edited by goltrek (2025-07-16 18:38:38)

brontosaurusrex

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Re: (Solved) Change folders to Brazilian Portuguese

Some reading
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_user_directories

I'd try something like
1. backup

cd ~/.config
# backup
cp user-dirs.dirs user-dirs.dirs.orig

2. edit the .config/user-dirs.dirs as you wish
3. login/logout
4. Test, if there is some mayor breakage restore the original backup
(p.s. There could be a nicer/cleaner way I'am not aware of)

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goltrek

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Re: (Solved) Change folders to Brazilian Portuguese

Thanks for the reply, I will make the changes.

marens

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Re: (Solved) Change folders to Brazilian Portuguese

^ I have ~/.config/user-dirs.locale  file:

$ cat ~/.config/user-dirs.locale
en_US

Maybe you should try here.
Then LogOut/LogIn.

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marens

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Re: (Solved) Change folders to Brazilian Portuguese

Looks like Reboot is required instead of LogOut/LogIn.
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/815470

See the last post:

I edited user-dirs.locale and added my language then rebooted the machine. After login a prompt came up to ask me to confirm the renaming.

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goltrek

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Re: (Solved) Change folders to Brazilian Portuguese

I managed to solve it with the following commands.
xdg-user-dirs-update
xdg-user-dirs-update --force

I hope I helped.

Greetings!