Can't remove ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel

Question

I saw this post: Prevent gnome-shell's dash from listing Recent Items and I'm not able to remove the recently.used.xbel file.

Do I need to be root to do this?

-rw------- 1 ryan ryan 39157 2012-02-19 15:47 /home/ryan/.local/share/recently-used.xbel --

When I run

rm ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel

I get

rm: cannot remove `/home/ryan/.local/share/recently-used.xbel': Operation not permitted

Running the same command with sudo returns the same error, and running nautilus as root also returns a similar error.

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 28 '12 at 15:58

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what infinity said. Try ´sudo chattr -i ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel´, and then try to delete the file again.

– @severin

This did the trick. Thanks

answered Feb 28 '12 at 15:58

rylhunt

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 24 '12 at 23:01

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~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel is in your home directory and belongs to your current user, so in short I can say: no, you don't need to be root to delete it.

But you need to be more specific about your problem.

answered Feb 24 '12 at 23:01

GalmWing

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Feb 28 '12 at 06:33

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You could just do a

gksudo nautilus

or which filemanager you are using and simply browse to the file and delete it.

edited Feb 28 '12 at 06:33

jokerdino

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answered Feb 27 '12 at 21:34

Paul Woitaschek

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score 0 · Answer 4 · edited Feb 28 '12 at 03:15

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Try running: lsof |grep recently-used.xbel

This should show if some process has a lock on that file.

You can also try: rm -f ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel

edited Feb 28 '12 at 03:15

Jorge Castro

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answered Feb 28 '12 at 02:52

mhall119

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Can't remove ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel

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