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Isaac Dontje Lindell
Asked: 2013-10-22 11:49:39 +0800 CST

Nautilus doesn't allow adding/removing bookmarks

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I just did a fresh install of Ubuntu 13.10 (actually, I've done two fresh installs, hoping that trying again would get this working).

I don't seem to have the ability to add or remove bookmarks from Nautilus. The ones that are there by default (Home, Desktop, Documents, etc.) work fine. I can right click on them and rename them. However, I cannot remove any of them. The option is there "Remove" but disabled/grayed out.

The same is true if I try to add bookmarks. I go to "Files -> Bookmarks", and all the bookmarks show up, but the buttons at the bottom to add, remove, or re-order the bookmarks are simply disabled.

What am I doing wrong?

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3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Custom bookmarks

    To add and remove custom bookmarks, refer to the documentation in Files ▸ Help ▸ Edit folder bookmarks:

    Add a bookmark:

    1. Open the folder (or location) that you want to bookmark.

    2. Click the gear button in the toolbar and pick Bookmark this Location.

    Delete a bookmark:

    1. Click on Files in the top bar and pick Bookmarks from the app menu.

    2. In the Bookmarks window, select the bookmark you wish to delete and click the - button.

    The "gear button" is on the right side of Nautilus:

    Bookmark this location - Nautilus - Ubuntu 13.10

    It will be grayed out if the location you've opened is already bookmarked.

    Places

    The bookmarks seen under the "Places" heading are an exception:

    Remove grayed out - Places - Nautilus - Ubuntu 13.10

    They're not just bookmarks, but XDG user directories with a separate configuration backend, so the Nautilus developers deliberately chose to disable removing them.

    The issue of working around this limitation is being discussed in this question.

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  2. I think I may have stumbled upon a way to add a bookmark for, say, the UbuntuOne folder.

    First up, I connected to a SMB server, and I found that I was able to create a bookmark for this connection. This action created the Bookmarks entry in the left pane of Nautilus. Not sure if this is really necessary - it is just what I did.

    Then I right-clicked on one of the folders in the Home folder (one I did not want to Bookmark say, Videos), and selected Copy to. This opened up the Select destination window.

    I could then right-click on the folder I wanted to Bookmark and add it to the Bookmarks.

    After that, I could rename, or remove, the bookmark if I wanted to.

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  3. If you want to completely remove Public Videos Pictures ... folders in home directory and their bookmarks in Nautilus

    cd ~
sudoedit /etc/xdg/user-dirs.conf # Change `enabled=False` to `enabled=True`
rm -r Templates Public Videos Pictures Music Documents # remove unwanted folders
gedit ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs #Remove respective lines
sudo reboot
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