This bug affects Thunar 1.6.3 at Xubuntu 13.10, default i386 install.
Workarounds from comments #0 together with #5 worked for me.
Caveats: if you create a new bookmark at Thunar, you'll need to redo the symlink in order to changes propagate to /home/username/.config/gtk-3.0/bookmarks.
This bug affects Thunar 1.6.3 at Xubuntu 13.10, default i386 install.
Workarounds from comments #0 together with #5 worked for me.
Caveats: if you create a new bookmark at Thunar, you'll need to redo the symlink in order to changes propagate to /home/username/ .config/ gtk-3.0/ bookmarks.
best regards,
ibere