Ubuntu – Have two Home Folders

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Have just installed 11.10 and Gnome Shell 3.2 in the past few days and noticed I have two Home folders, one "home" the other "Home" (upper case H). They both have the same folders and files in and if I delete a file from one it is also deleted from the other.
I cannot delete either and would welcome any guidance you can give.copy of desktop

Thank you.
John Billot

Best Answer

This is completely fine.

home is the home directory for all users.

Home is a simpler way to see your own directory, and is only used in the File Browser

In the screenshot, I've changed to the Tree View (View Menu -> Sidebar -> Tree), and the Home at the top is just a quick link to my home directory (which is infact /home/nemo).

Similarly user temp has his home directory at /home/temp. If I were to login as temp, Home would take me to /home/temp, but show Home at the address bar.

Screenshot

In an analogy to Windows 7, the /home directory equates to C:\Users, where different User folders are present.

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