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Is there any quick way to clear all Evince bookmarks? The interface only allows selecting and removing one at a time. Manually editing ~/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/home to remove the bookmarks lead to resetting everything, not just the bookmarks.

This is for the case in which there are a lot of bookmarks so clearing manually would take a long time.

Răzvan Flavius Panda
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The bookmarks are stored as a gio file attribute, e.g. you can list them with

gio info -a metadata::evince::bookmarks myfile.pdf

Setting that attribute to empty string will remove all bookmarks from your document:

gio set myfile.pdf metadata::evince::bookmarks ''

Note this is rather new stuff - it replaces gvfs-info and respectively gvfs-set-attribute (with similar syntax)

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  • I used `gvfs-set-attribute myfile.pdf metadata::evince::bookmarks ''` since I could not figure out which package gio is part of. I am using XFCE on NixOS and am thinking it might require installing some Gnome components. – Răzvan Flavius Panda Apr 06 '18 at 17:19