How to restore the home folder to its original state?

Question

ubuntu

There was a misfortune, accidentally, while in the home directory, I pressed rm -r * = and everything was gone.
I got into ./.config/user-dirs.dirs, the paths there were empty, added the following
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Downloads"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Templates"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/ Public"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documents"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Music"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Pictures"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Videos"
After that, I created the Desktop/ Downloads/ Images/ folder in my home directory, etc. .
But for some reason, all these directories appear on the desktop.
How to solve this problem

Answer 1

The fact that they appeared on the desktop is very strange. If you didn’t mix anything up for sure, then just re-enter the profile, it should be picked up.
Only rmautomated, regular and reliable backups can cure you :)