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Bug 756062 - No way to directly add device to bookmarks without mounting first
No way to directly add device to bookmarks without mounting first
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Bookmarks
3.18.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2015-10-04 20:21 UTC by erusan
Modified: 2021-06-18 15:54 UTC
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GNOME target: ---
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Description erusan 2015-10-04 20:21:33 UTC
The new "other locations" concept does not provide a way to bookmark external drives without first mounting them. If I attach a new backup or storage drive, I should not need to 1) mount 2) bookmark 3) unmount the drive in order to add it to bookmarks.

Steps to reproduce:
1) Right-click on drive in "other locations" pane
Expected result: Ability to "Add bookmark"
Actual result: No menu item for "Add bookmark"

Or
1) Attempt to drag device from "other locations" pane to sidebar
Expected result: Drive is "dragged" to sidebar, creating bookmark
Actual result: Drive not draggable
Comment 1 Lapo Calamandrei 2015-10-05 14:52:56 UTC
Here if I bookmark a directory on a device then unmount also makes nautilus crash
Comment 2 António Fernandes 2017-08-21 13:02:22 UTC
Instead of reusing the concept of "Bookmarks", maybe we should call it "Pin to Sidebar" or "Add to Sidebar", adding them to the "drives" section of the sidebar, instead of the bookmarks section.

The same could work for network mount bookmarks (bug 756418).

(In reply to Lapo Calamandrei from comment #1)
> Here if I bookmark a directory on a device then unmount also makes nautilus
> crash

May be another bug. Is this still happening? If so, please file a new report with a stacktrace.
Comment 3 André Klapper 2021-06-18 15:54:11 UTC
GNOME is going to shut down bugzilla.gnome.org in favor of gitlab.gnome.org.
As part of that, we are mass-closing older open tickets in bugzilla.gnome.org
which have not seen updates for a longer time (resources are unfortunately
quite limited so not every ticket can get handled).

If you can still reproduce the situation described in this ticket in a recent
and supported software version of Files (nautilus), then please follow
  https://wiki.gnome.org/GettingInTouch/BugReportingGuidelines
and create a new ticket at
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Thank you for your understanding and your help.