# Locations

Michael Anderson

    nosrednaekim@gmail.com

Anne-Marie Mahfouf

    annma@kde.org

2021-09-05
Plasma 5.22
Plasma KControl desktop paths location systemsetting

This is a module to configure essential paths for the &plasma; desktop.

Configure some &kde; paths

Configure some &kde; paths

Drives that are automounted at login cannot be used as paths. Such drives will be reverted to defaults during restart of &plasma;.

Desktop path:

  The Desktop folder contains all the files which you see in a Folder View widget on your desktop. The default path is usually `~/Desktop` but you can change here the location of this folder.

Documents path:

  This folder will be used by default to load or save documents from or to.

Downloads path:

  This folder will be used by default to save your downloaded items.

Videos path:

  This folder will be used by default to load or save movies from or to.

Pictures path:

  This folder will be used by default to load or save pictures from or to.

Music path:

  This folder will be used by default to load or save music from or to.

If you change a path and click Apply a dialog appears where you can choose to move the content to the new folder or use the new folder without moving the files.