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I want to remove Videos and Music from the left side panel. But, I can't seem to find the option to do so. How do you do that?

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I was able to rename them in the side pane by just renaming each folder in the main pane. Highlight, press F2, rename. You might try making a symlink to your NAS folders and putting that in your Home folder, replacing the unneeded default folders. Right-click a destination folder, choose 'Make link', and drag the link into the home folder. Rename it Music or whatever, and replace the defaults. – Tom Brossman Nov 4 '11 at 17:03
I'd bring something up at brainstorm.ubuntu.com. – ObsessiveSSOℲ Aug 27 '12 at 11:49
@ObsessiveFOSS Better bring it up to the GNOME devs. – jokerdino♦ Aug 27 '12 at 11:51

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Try this if instead of places you prefer a tree view of your folders placed on the left panel, use this command

gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.window-state side-pane-view "tree"

To revert it back

gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.window-state side-pane-view "places"

Or go to View > Sidebar while Nautilus is open.

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Open the file user-dirs.dirs in your ~/.config folder with your favorite text editor.

Comment out the line about the folder, which you do not want to be in the nautilus left pane. I commented about the Videos folder.

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XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documents"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Music"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Pictures"
#XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Videos"

Then open a terminal, and run xdg-user-dirs-gtk-update, see the magic.

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This one should be marked as the correct answer. – Rafael Vega Dec 18 '12 at 13:01
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Agreed, the best answer! TY very much. – enapupe Apr 30 at 14:15
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Edit -

Dug into it a bit further - if you edit ~/.config/user-dirs.dir you can remove them from the panel and still have them as folders in your /home it seems.

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I have tried that. It doesn't work. – jokerdino♦ Nov 14 '11 at 13:49
Tried which - the old that I removed or this? – Elfy Nov 14 '11 at 17:41
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That removes the special folder functions also from the system ie: downloads will not be selected as download folder anymore, pictures will not be the default folder when using image programs, I really dont advise you on doing that @jokerdino. – Bruno Pereira♦ Nov 14 '11 at 19:37
@brunopereira81 Are default directories the only thing this will change? Or might there be other, more drastic things? – Kris Harper Nov 14 '11 at 19:49
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It will change more then just the default directories I think, thats why the warning, you can ofc set it back to how it was but that file is used to set up which directories you want to use for those functions, remove a directory, remove a function. – Bruno Pereira♦ Nov 14 '11 at 19:51
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These directories are set by xdg-user-dirs.

Reading the documentation shows that you can disable a user directory by pointing it to your home directory. Use Ubuntu-Tweak or manually edit the file ~/.conf/user-dirs.dirs and point all the bookmarks you do not want to see to your home dir, and they will also disappear from the Nautilus side bar.

NOTE: I tried commenting out and removing the lines from ~/.conf/user-dirs.dirs as forestpiskie suggests, and that worked only until the next time I logged in. By setting them to the $HOME dir, the settings stuck.

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try going on Bookmarks in window menu, bookmarks > modify bookmarks (translate from italian ubuntu) and the remove the one that you don't want

otherwise Ctrl + D to access the menu

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