[Desktop] Spotify creates "Downloads" folder in my documents

[arturott]

Plan

Premium

Device

(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)

Operating System

 Windows 10

My Issue:

Hi everyone, recently I noticed tha when I startup Spotify, it automaticly creates a folder named "Downloads" inside my documents in Windows 10, I know it is Spotify creating this folder because everytime I delete it and startup Spotify it creates it immediatelly, I don't want this folder. Is there a way to disable this ?

[robstanley]

@Ivan  @Katerina any update on this issue please further to your responses above earlier in the year ?

[kyane]

Same issue here, on Linux Debian 10. The Spotify application creates an unwanted Downloads folder in my home directory.
I am using the latest version from your repositories : 1:1.1.42.622.gbd112320-37

The only thing related I can found is a message when I install/remove the package :
"xdg-desktop-menu: No writable system menu directory found."

My `.config/user-dirs.dirs` file is configured correctly for this folder with the line "DOWNLOAD=downloads" so Spotify should works with the folder I specify.

[darcybgoode]

I don't have xdg-user-dirs installed. But I'm pretty sure the issue is here.

In Chromium browser there is the same thing - it creates "Downloads" folder if xdg-user-dirs are not installed. But you can change default downloads directory in browser settings. But in Spotify client there is no such option of course.

[andsanmar]

@darcybgoodeI've both xdg-user-dir and xdg-user-dir-gtk installed and Chromium using my default downloads folder but spotify keeps creating the 'Downloads' folder

[minigunpanther]

I just upgraded from spotify-1.0.72-r1 to spotify-1.1.56 and have the exact same problem on my Gentoo Linux. As a workaround, I'm using a script to start Spotify and remove the empty directory right after.

I also have xdg-user-dir installed.