When opening Caja, you will see in the left side panel standard bookmarks for your Documents, Pictures, Music, Video's and Download folder among other standard bookmarks. Some users want to remove the bookmarks for their /home folders but are not able to remove them. There is a solution to get rid of those standard bookmarks of your /home folders.
Here below you find the solution of how to get rid of those standard bookmarks:
Open Caja in your personal folder
Press Ctrl+H to show all hidden files and folders
Open the hidden folder .config (be aware of the dot ( . ) in front of the folder name)
Locate a file called user-dirs.dirs
Make sure to create a backup copy of this file just in case
Right click on that file and select Open With Text Editor
The default content of that file is:
# This file is written by xdg-user-dirs-update
# If you want to change or add directories, just edit the line you're
# interested in. All local changes will be retained on the next run
# Format is XDG_xxx_DIR="$HOME/yyy", where yyy is a shell-escaped
# homedir-relative path, or XDG_xxx_DIR="/yyy", where /yyy is an
# absolute path. No other format is supported.
#
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Downloads"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Templates"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Public"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documents"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Music"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Pictures"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Videos"
To hide the bookmarks in the left side panel all you need to do is removing the link to that folder. As example: you want to hide the bookmark for your Music folder. You search for that specific line:
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Music"
And simply remove the last part to get the line look like this:
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME"
The same can be done for all the other links mentioned in the users-dirs.dirs file. When finished editing the file, just save and close the file. To make sure the changes will have their effect simply log out and log in.