Re: Nautilus and automounted directories

[Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn ant uni-bremen de>]

Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 19:11, Heinrich Rebehn wrote:
>
> > Hi list,
> >
> > I am using GNOME 2.4.1 and i really do like nautilus, but i am a bit
> > annoyed by its behaviour wrt to automounted directories.
> > If i point nautilus to an automounted dir, say "/home/john" then it
> > display its contents, but after some time, it just falls back to my home
> > dir. It seems that the automounter unmounts it because nautilus does not
> > keep the directory open. This is even worse when i want to browse a CD,
> > which is automounted with a 5 sec timeout. It's almost unusable!
> >
> > I looked for a way to configure this in nautilus, but could not find
> > anything. As a kludge, i open a terminal window and enter "cd
> > /home/john" or "cd /rmdisks/cdrom", but this really isn't a solution.
> >
> > Is there a way to have nautilus either
> > - keep the directory open or
> > - keep displaying the contents, even if the dir is unmounted?
> >
> > There's a related problem when i put a link to an automounted dir on the
> > desktop and try to open it. Nautilus barks that it is a dead link and
> > offers to move it to trash. It is not dead! It is just not mounted, but
> > would be if nautilus would try to open it!
> >
> > I would be very thankful for any help. I really like using GNOME.
>
>
> This sounds like a very sensible thing to do. Could you file this as a
> bug in bugzilla to make sure we don't forget it.

Filed as bug #131665

Heinrich Rebehn