I found /home/m9ke/snap/snapd-desktop-integration/B3/Documents contains links to every file in my Documents directory.
And I found that deleting or renaming changes made to the files in the snap directory are automatically applied to the files in my Documents directory.
Example: deleted a file in the *B3 directory: it disappeared from my Documents folders. Same if I renamed the file, the filename changed i my Documents directory.
I'm aware of the differing points of view around snap and for the moment I am remaining agnostic.
This mirroring of my Documents directory in the B3 directory concerns me, I understand storage is cheap--that's not the concern.
The concerns are: 1-potentially un-needed complexity; and 2-I did not know that my Documents directory would be linked to file by file until after the install (mostly my bad).
I would greatly appreciate any comments: why is are links to every file being created? Does snap really need to do this in order to function?
At least in the case of my laptop, which is also running Ubuntu MATE 22.04 LTS ("Jammy Jellyfish"), but that is a bit different from your setup because my installation is a fresh install (and not an upgrade), those subdirectories of the "snapd-desktop-integration" directory are empty (or, to be more precise, they contain only some hidden files - that is, files with names that begin with a period).
So, contrary to my regular "Documents" folder - that is located at /home/ricmarques/Documents and that contains lots of subfolders and files that I've created - the "Documents" directories located at /home/ricmarques/snap/snapd-desktop-integration/57/Documents and at /home/ricmarques/snap/snapd-desktop-integration/83/Documents are empty, as is also the case of directory /home/ricmarques/snap/snapd-desktop-integration/current/Documents because the "current" directory is currently (no pun intended) a symbolic link to the "83" directory.
By the way: you've mentioned a "B3" (capital B three) directory in your post, but I believe that you meant a "83" (eighty three) directory, instead. Am I right?
Thanks for your reply. I ended up disabling snap according to these instructions. Good catch- the 'B3' could easily have been a misread of '83' on my part.
Thanks again,
Mike
