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Spotify client is creating folders in my Home

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Spotify client is creating folders in my Home

Spotify is creating folders when I run it. The names of those folders are "Desktop", "Music", "Videos", "snap"...

I already have those folders, but they are in a different language (PT-BR).

My guess is that Spotify (for some reason) does not use set variables and paths or it's a problem with the Snap packaging - because it creates a "snap" folder (that for some reason, was not named ".snap", to make it hidden).

 

See the images to understand it better. They are screenshots of Nautilus file explorer, before and after I ran Spotify. Note that I have user folders (but they are in Brazilian Portuguese, and Spotify create those same user folders, but with English names).

Before-running-Spotify.png
After-running-Spotify.png
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It's probably snap's fault. The version from Ubuntu Software is a snap package (I guess).

I installed spotify-client from their deb repository, and it didn't create any folders.

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Can somebody tell me whether this is Spotify or Snap?

Is there anyway to stop this? It's really annoying...

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It's probably snap's fault. The version from Ubuntu Software is a snap package (I guess).

I installed spotify-client from their deb repository, and it didn't create any folders.

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