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I changed my username and home directory as described in this ask-ubuntu-link. However, now I can not access many items on sidebar (Documents, music, pictures) by clicking because the link is associated with my old user id while folders' names have been changed.

Could someone please help me?

UPDATE:

My old username was: kumar and new one is: dkumar. I can access /home/dkumar/Documents by typing it in nautilus. But, link on sidebar of explorer is still showing /home/kumar/Documents and hence, when I click there, I get the error message that "Could not find /home/kumar/Documents . Please check the spelling and try again"

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Garima Singh
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(edited in 2020 for current versions of Ubuntu)

Edit the file /home/dkumar/.config/gtk-3.0/bookmarks manually and correct the wrong paths.

Then, restart nautilus: nautilus -q.

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What is most likely the problem you're facing is not being the file/directory owner. You can check this by executing ls -al on your /home/username directory to see who the owner is.

To fix this problem just by using chown (check the examples section)

chown -hR username /home/username
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