Templates not showing in latest version of Gnome's Nautilus File Manager

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I am currently running the latest unstable NixOS: 24.05.20231204.2c7f3c0 (Uakari)

When using Gnome’s Nautilus file manager, I am unable to create a new item (as specified by items in the ~/home/user/Templates folder) when right-clicking in Nautilus folder window. Is anyone else experiencing the same issue?

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It works for me in GNOME Shell.

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Also works for me in NixOS 23.11.1431.a804fc878d7b

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@jtojnar and @_Andrew thank you for the feedback. Not sure what is happening on my side. Do either of you know how to delete any caches that Gnome may use?

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For anyone who finds this post in the future, the issue was related to the file ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs having an erroneous pointer for the variable XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR.

To fix it required deleting the file ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs and then adding the following snippet into the home-manager config:

  xdg.userDirs.enable = true;

Once this is done a rebuild followed by logging out and back in resolved the issue.