Delete "Recent Servers" in Nautilus Ubuntu 13.10

Asked by Valentine Xavier

I'm unable to find a way to delete entries from the "Recent Servers" list in Nautilus/Files v3.8.2.
I'm running 13.10.

Thanks in advance for your help.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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Can you give a screenshot of the issue, use imageshack or similar to make a URL of the image

Thanks

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Valentine Xavier (askvnx) said :
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No problem actionparsnip, http://imageshack.com/a/img842/9807/5nyl.png

It's only an issue, as I want to logon to an FTP site under different
credentials, all the same it would be nice to delete unwanted links.

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Valentine Xavier (askvnx) said :
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Please excuse the extra text, bit of a virgin to this posting stuff!

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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If you run:

gedit ~/.config/nautilus/servers

Are they in there? If so, run:

cat /dev/null > ~/.config/nautilus/servers

And it will clear, you may need to press ALT+F2 and run:

nautilus -q

To restart nautilus.

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Valentine Xavier (askvnx) said :
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Fantastic! That worked!

Here's what I did with actionparsnip's directions...
1) First make sure you have exited all open instances of Nautilus,

2) In terminal type
gedit ~/.config/nautilus/servers

3)To delete the specific servers delete the lines beginning with,
  <bookmark href="(server address you want to delete is here, followed by added, modified and visited dates)">
  .
  .
  .

4)and ending with
  </bookmark>

Follow steps 3 to 4 for all the servers you want to delete, then hit the 'Save' button and that's it. The specific listing(s) are GONE! Woo Hoo.

NOTE:
You might have to run 'sudo gedit' but worked without for me, also you might want to make a copy of the file as a backup, just in case it goes horribly wrong!

Thank you actionparsnip, my first support request is now complete.

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Valentine Xavier (askvnx) said :
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Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.