Documents went missing from top left bar in nautilus. user-dirs.dirs updated but no results

Question

A crack of my touch screen laptop and the fiddling of the mouse made a folder disappear from nautilus (TOP) bookmarks : Home,Downloads, Pictures, etc. It probably moved my Documents folder somewhere else, which I fixed.

I went to update ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs, where the Documents line was missing, so I added it.

I updated through:

xdg-user-dirs-update
xdg-user-dirs-gtk-update
xdg-user-dirs-update --force

and rebooted few times but the directory doesn't come back.

Can you help?

My user-dirs.dirs file looks like that:

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

Answer 1

You have set XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documents" and, a few lines below, you set it again as XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/". The last setting effectively overrides the previous.

Just delete the XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/" line and you should be fine.