On Mon, 4 Feb 2013 15:18:55 +0900
Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sat, 02 Feb 2013 23:59:41 +0000 Gary <[email protected]> said:
> 
> > I'm running the latest enlightenment from the elf ubuntu ppa. I
> > have much of my data directories symlinked to a seperate partition  
> > (Documents, Downloads ... lots more). When I use Navigate from the  
> > root menu these directories don't show up under the Home listing.
> > When I view home using efm they show up but when double clicked
> > fail to load because the home dir is prepended to the symlink  
> > (/home/gary/mnt/data/Documents instead of
> > just /mnt/data/Documents). However, if I right click the Documents
> > directory and select open, efm will open the Documents directory
> > fine.
> > 
> > I don't see any configuration setting to control this. Anyone else  
> > have this problem, and maybe know of a way to make symlinks behave?
> > 
> > TIA
> 
> i can't reproduce your problem... if i symlink (ln -s) to some other
> dir on some other partition, it shows up in efm, and if i open it it
> opens up that symlink nicely with all content... with double-click

I have unintentionally duplicated it here.  I have two symlinks in
my home directory.  ~/Music points to a USB pocket hard drive that
contains my music files.  It works fine.  ~/Videos points to
another partition on the main disk that contains (what else?)
videos (/srv/videodata).  It fails to open, the way that Gary
mentioned above.  I can hover the mouse over the Videos entry in
efm, and the tooltip window opens and shows the files in that
directory.  When I right-click and select "Properties", the
correct link information is shown.  But when I double-click on the
Videos entry, efm tells me that "/home/dales/srv/videodata" does
not exist.

I tried to run an strace on enlightenment_filemanager, but the
strace ended when the efm window opened.  Evidently that program
is simply a launcher.  Interestingly, when I ran an  strace -p  of
the running enlightenment_fm process, efm worked.  The symlink
opened without any trouble.  I don't know what changed, but
something certainly did.

As it happens, I am still running E17.0, I haven't installed 17.1
yet, so the problem may already be fixed.  But just in case it
isn't, maybe this will help.

--Dale

--
Ivanova:  Always finding the good in any situation, eh Captain?
Sheridan:  Absolutely.  If I didn't, I might end up like you.

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