[SOLVED] How to recreate home folder subdirectories

I have accidentally removed home folder stuff (shame on me), and i have recovered data,
but now I don't have sub-directories like Downloads, Music ...
How to recreate those? I can't find anything on this topic for arch.
I can make them using mkdir but that won't for example in future place Chromium downlaods in it (at least i think so).
Thanks!
EDIT: This is file list of /etc/skel
.bash_logout .bash_profile .bashrc .config .xscreensaver
Last edited by mirko28 (2015-03-18 20:03:23)

@nullified and @Radioactiveman
Thanks a lot! I needed to create them manually and change ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs variables to those folders.
@karol
I used sass --watch to compile my .scss files, and sass created ~ folder in my project (I have no idea why). After that i was trying to delete that damned folder using rm -r ~ and that deleted my real ~ folder. I was in project folder i don't know why it deleted home.
Thanks guys you saved me, I was about to reinstall arch !
Last edited by mirko28 (2015-03-18 20:06:01)

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