Maybe you can try that idea of zenzen to delete those files when logged in as your user (or rename them by adding .bak to the filename to make them invisible for the system, e.g. ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs.bak):
Maybe you can try that idea of zenzen to delete those files when logged in as your user (or rename them by adding .bak to the filename to make them invisible for the system, e.g. ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs.bak):