From: Monsieur@notreal.invalid   
      
   Mark Bourne wrote:   
      
   > It looks like `~/.cinnamon/configs` is an "old" path for Cinnamon's   
   > settings files, with `~/.config/cinnamon/` being the "new" path (the   
   > `OLD_SETTINGS_DIR` and `SETTINGS_DIR` names in my script are copied   
   > straight from `cinnamon-settings` itself).  You could probably just   
   > delete the now-duplicates from under `~/.cinnamon/configs` (or move to   
   > somewhere else and see how things go for a while before deleting, in   
   > case I'm wrong about that).  I don't even have a `~/.cinnamon/`   
   > directory on my Mint 22.1 Cinnamon system, having been set up as a fresh   
   > installation and only selectively copied config files that I knew I   
   > wanted to keep from the previous version.   
      
   I have now deleted the entire ./cinnamon/ folder and everything still   
   works, so it appears it is no longer needed.   
      
   > The code in `cinnamon-settings` will load all files under both of those   
   > directories, with settings loaded from `~/.config/cinnamon/` taking   
   > precedence if both define the same settings, so there doesn't seem to be   
   > any advantage in having the same in both places.  But, because it tries   
   > to load all the files, it'll fail if any are corrupt.   
      
   >   
   >> Strange that this happened on a completely fresh install on a   
   >> completely new machine.   
   >   
   >  From other posts it sounds like you copied your home directory across   
   > from an old machine, but it's still strange.  All I can think is that   
   > either something went wrong when copying, or perhaps the files were   
   > already corrupt on the old machine but the version of   
   > `cinnamon-settings` there either didn't look in that directory or was   
   > more tolerant of the errors.   
      
   I have no explanation either. The strangest part is that the files were   
   correctly copied but obviously couldn't be read because they were empty.   
   Who or what wiped the contents I have no idea.   
      
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