GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 557393
(sym)link behavior with GVFS filesystems
Last modified: 2021-06-18 15:49:43 UTC
Right now Nautilus will make a symlink to a file located on a GVFS mount by using the GVFS-FUSE functionality. However, when the user restarts or switches session, that link is now invalid, and the next time the user goes to use it, (s)he is asked if (s)he would like to remove the link. This is clearly suboptimal. Whether the solution is to a) check if we can mount the old location again or b) switch to using desktop entry link files, I'm not entirely sure. See the Launchpad bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/287476
This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but the maintainers need more information to fix the bug. Could you please answer the questions in the other report in order to help the developers? Would you please confirm if this has been resolved with the latest release. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 148330 ***
*** Bug 635864 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
my bad, this is a different issue and not related with https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148330 .
Also see bug 591647 for the same request for unmounted partitions.
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