I want to remove permanent links/bookmarks to folders "Downloads", "Videos", etc from folder sidebar view

Question

I'm not editing my own bookmarks. I want to remove the system provided links on the folder view sidebar to the following folders Pictures, Videos, Downloads, Templates, Documents. I just want Desktop and Home in the list. Someone told me earlier to edit the file user-dirs.dirs in .config. I did that and it worked great. Now since reloading the OS 20.04 that file just re-writes itself every boot with all the links present again. Also the answer with that suggestion of editing user-dirs.dirs is also missing from the forum.

Answer 1

Ok. I had to open a terminal and change the permissions to 777 on the user-dirs.dirs file. That worked! Thank you to whoever posted this answer that now seems missing. Thankfully, I was able to remember it.