Quoting "Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)" <[email protected]>:

> On Mon, 04 Feb 2013 07:40:05 +0000 Gary <[email protected]> said:
>
>>
>> Quoting "Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)" <[email protected]>:
>>
>> > 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
>> >
>> > --
>> > ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" --------------
>> > The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler)    [email protected]
>> >
>> >
>>
>> I must correct my statement that my system is running the latest e,
>> it's running e 17.0 which is the latest provided by this ppa.
>>
>> After some experimentation I've found that there are ways around this
>> issue on my system. The easiest of which is to turn off "File
>> Manger/Behavior/Open Dirs In Place". Home dir symlinks open perfectly
>> as a result. More difficult, but just as effective, is to use the
>> navigation menu to start at root and use that menu to navigate to my
>> home dir. Double clicking on symlinks in my home dir works fine then.
>
> open dirs in place on here... and i dont see your problem :( i'm wondering if
> its something different in your fs? ext4 here... wondering if some  
> stat() stuff
> is being lost?
>

I'm running a stock Ubuntu 12.10, ext4. I'd love to give you more  
information, but I don't know how to gather anything more. Are there  
some commands I can run that might help? I'm familiar with the command  
line.

I have upgraded to E 17.1, the same issue persists.




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