How do I remove items from the Places section of the Files sidebar?

Question

I don't use the Music, Documents, Pictures, Video, and Trash folders often enough to warrant them an honorary place on the sidebar of Ubuntu's 13.04 default file manager "Files".

I would like to remove them, but the "Remove" item on the context menu is grayed out. Since Linux distros tend to be configurable I'm guessing there is a way around this.

The Gear menu doesn't seem to have any options to do this:

The Bookmarks menu looked helpful, but it still made no changes.

_{(This is after I removed all the Bookmarks I wasn't interested in.)}

I have also tried the suggestion from this answer and commented out lines I don't want from user-dirs.dirs, but still no luck:

$ vim ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs
<edits>
$ xdg-user-dirs-gtk-update

How do you remove these default items from the sidebar?

Solution

The answer to this question is covered here.

You need to change the variables in .config/user-dirs.dirs to point to $HOME like this:

XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME"

Comments

[Cory Klein]

@Takkat I just tried that answer, it didn't change the appearance at all. Have you tried this on 13.04? Also, if Nautilus is being used for files in 13.04, why does the File->About page say "Files 3.6.3"?

[Cory Klein]

I was able to fix it finally by following this comment.

[Takkat]

Great! I edited the answer to add the comment. This makes it more prominent ;)

[Arnold]

@Takkat 's answer on this link perfectly works on my 13.04 x64 askubuntu.com/questions/79150/…

[Cory Klein]

Unfortunately in 13.04 there is no Edit Bookmarks menu available from the Gear icon or the menu bar.

[Maxim Kachurovskiy]

Wow, that helped. Simply deleting those entries didn't.

[loxaxs]

In 16.04, there is an option Bookmarks which does the same. But the changes do not affect the sidepane.