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Bug 757034 - (mounted) removable media is no longer shown in the side bar
(mounted) removable media is no longer shown in the side bar
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 756589
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Sidebar
3.18.x
Other Linux
: Normal major
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2015-10-23 20:08 UTC by Michael Biebl
Modified: 2015-11-04 12:17 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

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nautilus 3.18 not showing removable media in sidebar (46.90 KB, image/png)
2015-10-23 20:08 UTC, Michael Biebl 		Details

Description Michael Biebl 2015-10-23 20:08:52 UTC 
Created attachment 313965 [details]
nautilus 3.18 not showing removable media in sidebar

In 3.18, removable media, like external hard drives, are no longer shown in the side bar, even when mounted. One has to go to "Other locations" to find them there if you want to umount them.

This is a usability regression, as it makes removable media much less simply to use (and find) and one more easily forgets to umount the removable media before detaching it (happened to me at least already a couple of time).

Attached is a screenshot illustrating the problem.
Comment 1 Michael Biebl 2015-10-23 20:10:29 UTC 
btw, this is also inconsistent behaviour. If I mount remote file systems (tested with sftp://) they are shown in the sidebar.
Comment 2 Carlos Soriano 2015-10-23 20:37:40 UTC 
This problem has been fixed in our software repository. The fix will go into the next software release. Once that release is available, you may want to check for a software upgrade provided by your Linux distribution.
Comment 3 Michael Biebl 2015-10-23 20:38:52 UTC 
Hi Carlos, can you point me to the commit fixing that?
I might cherry-pick that for our Debian package.
Comment 4 Michael Biebl 2015-10-24 00:28:39 UTC 
I've built nautilus from git master. Now removable media is not shown at all any more, not even under "Other locations". So it actually has become worse.
Comment 5 Michael Biebl 2015-10-24 00:31:40 UTC 
Tested with a FAT32 formatted USB stick and a NTFS formatted external hard drive.
Comment 6 Michael Monreal 2015-11-02 16:26:01 UTC 
On 3.18.1 (Fedora 23) my mounted USB stick is shown in the sidebar, however my mounted USB harddrive only shows up in "Other locations"...
Comment 7 Carlos Soriano 2015-11-04 12:14:43 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 756589 ***
Comment 8 Carlos Soriano 2015-11-04 12:17:24 UTC 
(In reply to Michael Biebl from comment #3)
> Hi Carlos, can you point me to the commit fixing that?
> I might cherry-pick that for our Debian package.

You have it here in the original bug report. Also, make sure you use gtk+ from master, the sidebar is not part of nautilus, it's gtk+ (my fault I didn't bump gtk+ requirement on Nautilus)