Deleting shortcuts from Places?

Hello Martin:

If you have dragged shortcuts to the desktop then select all the files and hit shift+delete

This will delete the shortcuts permanently from the desktop and the computer

If you have dragged shortcuts on to the gnome panel do:

give the following command in a terminal (applications -> accessories -> terminal)

rm -rf .gnome .gnome2 .gconf .gconfd .metacity

and then reboot the system...

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Bhavani Shankar.

I'm always a bit paranoid about using rm -rf on files I don't know, so could you please explain what those files are before I blow them away?!

Martin

Martin,

rm -rf is used to delete files.. In this case I m deleting gnome files in history folder of your home and gnome will automatically when system restarts....

Bhavani Shankar.

I executed the command exactly as given above and it has not resolved my problem. It reset my desktop background and broke my connection to my wireless network, but it has not fixed the problem.

Any other ideas?

I don't know if you've tried this already, but if you open up any nautilus window (just go to Places -> Home for example) and you click on the "Bookmarks" menu, it lists those shortcuts (I'm pretty sure). If the ones you want to get rid of are there, then I think you can simply remove them using the "Edit Bookmarks" link and all should be good.

Thanks, but Edit Bookmarks will still only let me delete a single one at a time. There are dozens in there so I want a way of deleting multiple boomarks at the same time.

Martin

Any ideas anybody?

Thanks aaron andersen, that solved my question.