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I saw this post: Prevent gnome-shell's dash from listing Recent Items and I'm not able to remove the recently.used.xbel file.

Do I need to be root to do this?

-rw------- 1 ryan ryan 39157 2012-02-19 15:47 /home/ryan/.local/share/recently-used.xbel --

When I run

rm ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel

I get

rm: cannot remove `/home/ryan/.local/share/recently-used.xbel': Operation not permitted

Running the same command with sudo returns the same error, and running nautilus as root also returns a similar error.

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2 Years ago

answered 2 Years ago icielight · Accepted Answer

what infinity said. Try ´sudo chattr -i
~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel´, and then try to delete the file
again.

– @severin

This did the trick. Thanks