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Bug 316429 - Unable to use hidden folders as mount points
Unable to use hidden folders as mount points
Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.10.x
Other All
: Normal trivial
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-09-15 21:39 UTC by James Earl
Modified: 2010-10-16 02:01 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.9/2.10


Description James Earl 2005-09-15 21:39:38 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
When I try to hide my mount points, Nautilus no longer shows my CD-ROM, and
Memory Stick devices.

For example:

/usr/home/james/.mnt/cdrom (does not work)
/usr/home/james/mnt/cdrom (does work)


Steps to reproduce:
Use hidden folder names (dot in front of name)


Actual results:


Expected results:


Does this happen every time?


Other information:
I'm running FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE.
I am still able to mount hidden mount points from the command line using: mount
/usr/home/james/.mnt/cdrom
The main reason I'd like to be able to have hidden mount points is because when
I setup FreeBSD and GNOME for friends, I always have to tell them not to delete,
and ignore the "mnt" folder in their home directory.
Comment 1 Nelson Benitez 2005-09-15 22:37:33 UTC 
In nautilus you can hide files and folders without having to preceding them with
a dot '.' . Just add the files or folders you want to hide in each line of a
.hidden file. For your case you could do:

$ echo "mnt" > /usr/home/james/.hidden

This is only for Nautilus, gtkfilechooser will show it as it doesn't support
.hidden file.
Comment 2 Fabio Durán Verdugo 2010-09-04 03:55:11 UTC 
This bug was reported against a version which is not supported any more. Developers are no longer working on this version so there will not be any bug fixes for it.
Can you please check again if the issue you reported here still happens in a recent version of GNOME and update this report by adding a comment and adjusting the 'Version' field?

Again thank you for reporting this and sorry that it could not be fixed for the version you originally used here.

Without feedback this report will be closed as INCOMPLETE after 6 weeks.
Comment 3 Fabio Durán Verdugo 2010-10-16 02:01:11 UTC 
Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for.
Thanks!