WSL terminal running ubuntu will not open to selected folder

[dn3hgh]

So I installed wsl.
and have UBUNTU as my default terminal when I run the windows terminal. I went to settings>ubuntu>starting directory and selected my projects folder on my desktop.

however, when I run the terminal and put in "pwd" I get home/username...and when I do ls -a I I just get...

.bash_history .motd_shown .vscode-server .zsh_history
.bash_logout .oh-my-zsh .wget-hsts .zshrc
.bashrc .profile .zcompdump

Now, it actually did work. I was using ubuntu and it saw my windows but as soon as I tried changing default directory it messed everything up.

and as a result in VS code when I select WSL on the bottom left it can't see any windows folders anymore like it used to.

thanks