Changing GNOME "default" directories

[Tim]

Tim:
>> There's supposed to be some function (or was in earlier Fedora
>> releases) that'd periodically update your user directories.  Though I
>> don't know how, and how often, it actually did its trick.  I've never
>> seen it do its trick.

Paul W. Frields:
> It's xdg-user-dirs-update, and it does work.  Just tested it here on a
> fresh account.

What does it actually do?  Create replacements for missing special
directories?

(As I said, I haven't managed to see it do anything, yet.)

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