Inaccessible folders: Too many levels of symbolic links

In my home/, the folders **Desktop**, **Downloads**, **Public**, and **Templates** cannot be accessed anymore. For some reasons, those XDG user directories turned into symbolic links. ticjo@komputilo:~$ ls -l total 52K drwxr-xr-x 5 ticjo ticjo 4.0K Feb 9 2022 AndroidStudioProjects/ drwxr-xr-x 3 ticjo ticjo 4.0K Feb 9 2022 Audio_Books/ drwxr-xr-x 2 ticjo ticjo 4.0K Aug 11 16:17 Backup_launch/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 ticjo ticjo 19 Aug 30 08:16 Desktop -> /home/ticjo/Desktop drwxr-xr-x 5 ticjo ticjo 4.0K Aug 11 13:52 Documents/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 ticjo ticjo 21 Aug 30 11:57 Downloads -> /home/ticjo/Downloads drwxrwxr-x 5 ticjo ticjo 4.0K Aug 8 10:13 Logiciels/ drwxrwxr-x 6 ticjo ticjo 4.0K Aug 7 15:58 mount/ drwxr-xr-x 7 ticjo ticjo 4.0K Aug 3 16:50 Music/ drwxr-xr-x 26 ticjo ticjo 4.0K Aug 3 16:53 Pictures/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 ticjo ticjo 18 Aug 30 08:16 Public -> /home/ticjo/Public drwxrwxr-x 3 ticjo ticjo 4.0K Aug 7 16:06 python_envs/ drwx------ 11 ticjo ticjo 4.0K Aug 9 11:34 snap/ drwxrwxr-x 2 ticjo ticjo 4.0K Aug 8 10:24 'System Volume Information'/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 ticjo ticjo 21 Aug 30 08:16 Templates -> /home/ticjo/Templates drwxr-xr-x 5 ticjo ticjo 4.0K Aug 3 16:55 Videos/ drwxr-xr-x 3 ticjo ticjo 4.0K Aug 3 14:04 VirtualBox_VMs/ ticjo@komputilo:~$ When I try to **cd** to one of these folders I get the following error. ticjo@komputilo:~$ cd /home/ticjo/Desktop bash: cd: /home/ticjo/Desktop: Too many levels of symbolic links ticjo@komputilo:~$ Note also that the folders of my home/ appear on my desktop. A solution to resolve the problem **temporarily** is: 1) Delete the symbolic links using rm Desktop Downloads Public Templates, 2) Recreate the folders using mkdir Desktop Downloads Public Templates, 3) Edit the file ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs from

XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documents"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Music"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Pictures"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Videos"

to

XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Downloads"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Templates"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Public"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documents"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Music"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Pictures"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Videos"

However, after some times, all the empty XDG user directories are turned into symbolic links again. I'm using Ubuntu 23.04.