My current setup:
Gentoo amd64, Gentoo ~amd64 and Funtoo testing
KDE4
Dolphin 4.14.3 (Gentoo and Funtoo)
kdelibs 4.14.8 (Gentoo)
kdelibs 4.14.9 (Funtoo)
C2D, CI3, CI5-4430 CI7-3770, CI7-4770 and CI7-4790
Intel HD and Nvidia
8 GB ram

Problem:
Normally I have 4 entries under the Places section in Dolphin:
Home
Root
Network
Trash
In the last couple of months that has changed. I started getting multiples of each of the original four entries (Home, Root, Network and Trash). I found that each time I opened Dolphin a new set of four would appear, meaning that I would get the following as an example:
Home
Root
Network
Trash
Home
Root
Network
Trash
I found this bug that was very similar to my situation:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=347246
but the resolution doesn't help my situation, which is kdelibs 4.14.8.
I was able to use:
rm * ~/.kde4/share/apps/kfileplaces/
rm *xbe* ~/.local/share/
To curb the ever adding entries. The use of the two commands would reduce the multiple (Home, Root, Network and Trash) entries to just three sets.
I have approximately nine installations and only one of them doesn't have this problem.
Thanks

davidbrooke wrote:rm *xbe* ~/.local/share/

Try this instead:

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rm ~/.local/share/user-places.xbel

Also upgrade dolphin to 15.04.1 or higher if possible. That's the fixed version.

wolfi323 wrote:

davidbrooke wrote:rm *xbe* ~/.local/share/

Try this instead:

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rm ~/.local/share/user-places.xbel

Also upgrade dolphin to 15.04.1 or higher if possible. That's the fixed version.

Removing just "user-places.xbel" basically does the same thing as the previous steps I preformed.
Thanks

davidbrooke wrote:Removing just "user-places.xbel" basically does the same thing as the previous steps I preformed.

Yeah, but the command you posted was incorrect and does not remove user-places.xbel (or the wrong one) depending which directory is the current one.
And specifying the directory as you did doesn't make sense at all. This would try to remove the directory itself and fail because it is a directory.

Anyway, as mentioned you need Dolphin 15.04.1, that's the version that contains the fix. Just updating kdelibs doesn't suffice.

wolfi323 wrote:

davidbrooke wrote:Removing just "user-places.xbel" basically does the same thing as the previous steps I preformed.

Yeah, but the command you posted was incorrect and does not remove user-places.xbel (or the wrong one) depending which directory is the current one.
And specifying the directory as you did doesn't make sense at all. This would try to remove the directory itself and fail because it is a directory.

Anyway, as mentioned you need Dolphin 15.04.1, that's the version that contains the fix. Just updating kdelibs doesn't suffice.

Sorry I miss typed what I wanted to say in the original post....I meant to post:
cd ~/.local/share
rm *xbe*
That is actually what I did prior to posting.

This issue is resolved. See the following:
viewtopic.php?f=67&t=129654