Why are my settings in user-dirs.conf not taking affect?

I want the XDG specification folders in my home directory to be lowercase. I've created a file ~/.config/user-dirs.conf and updated it as such: enabled=True filename_encoding=UTF-8 DESKTOP=desktop2 DOWNLOAD=downloads2 TEMPLATES=templates2 PUBLICSHARE=public2 DOCUMENTS=documents2 MUSIC=music2 PICTURES=pictures2 VIDEOS=videos2 I did a full reboot and logged back into my desktop environment (Xfce) and the folders in my home directory are unchanged. I am observing the directory tree on the left side of Thunar and Caja to determine if a change has taken affect. I've also placed a file in the ~/Desktop folder which should disappear when ~/desktop2 is used instead. According to man user-dirs.conf: > Users can have their own ~/.config/user-dirs.conf file, which > overrides the system-wide configuration. These values are written to user-dirs.dirs, as it says within: > This file is written by xdg-user-dirs-update