I can't seem to find a way to customize (add/remove folders/directories) the "Places" menu in the most recent "Files" application of Ubuntu 13.04. The procedures used with "Nautilus" in the previous versions of Ubuntu (bookmarking or drag&drop) don't seem to work anymore.
Does anybody have a clue on how to do that?
First of all, open a nautilus window to the directory you wish to add. Then click the small cog icon in the top right of the nautilus window and click the 'Bookmark this location' entry. It will be added to the "Bookmarks" section of the sidebar.
I met the same problem and I found the following solution:
gedit ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs
remove the list you do not want. However, once you login again, it will reset, so -->
echo "enabled=false" > ~/.config/user-dirs.conf
Reference: http://jamesmcminn.com/2012/12/removing-entries-from-nautilus-3-6-places/
Alternatively, one may also solve everything by directly modifying Sysadmins file in /etc/xdg/user-dirs.conf, for more details refer to:
Functions of xdg-user-dirs
I just upgraded from 12.10 to 13.04 and I was suprised that my bookmarks are all gone in Nautilus!
I found that old ~/.gtk-bookmarks file has been replaced with ~/.config/gtk-3.0/bookmarks file. So all I had to do was copy / paste old bookmarks to new file. The syntax is the same.
Hope this helps someone.
For the time being use: Ctrl+D
Adding bookmarks via the menu seems to be broken right now. The help says to add a new bookmark, do:
Open the folder (or location) that you want to bookmark.
Click Bookmarks ▸ Add Bookmark.
The only entry I see in the menu is Files though, I can select Bookmarks there, but then only have the option to delete existing bookmarks.
Try this one, this works for me. My file manager is Nautilus.
Open nautilus as root
sudo -H nautilus &>/dev/null
Open the folder you want to add as bookmark.
Open Bookmarks in the top menu bar -> click Bookmark this Location.
