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[trinity-users] Re: Auto-mount no longer auto-mounts (TDE mediamanager)

From: William Morder via tde-users <ml-migration-agent@...>
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2020 07:09:23 -0700

On Monday 14 September 2020 06:46:40 BorgLabs - Kate Draven via tde-users 
wrote:

> >
> > So here is a sample of the "mount points"* that have been bestowed upon
> > me, against my will, by some higher, non-human intelligence:
> >
> > /media/Elements_25A1
> > /media/External_HDD____
> > /media/Mass_Storage_Device
> > /media/My_Book_________
> > /media/<pete>
> > /media/<user>
> > /media/USB_Storage
> >
> > * Note that names in brackets (< >) have been changed to protect the
>
> innocent;
>
> > they are not my real mount points.
> >
> > I always create my own unique names for mount points; names like Pete and
>
> Fred

> > These developments are all new, since my installation of beowulf/buster;
> > I never had anything like this is jessie or before, never even with the
> > old KDE3. It reminds me of those *other* DEs or OSs that I try so hard to
> > avoid.
> >
> > Somebody please make sense of these developing disasters.
> >
> > Bill
> > _______________________________________________
>
> Check your file associations.
> kcontrol > TDE Components > File Associations
> Check Storage Media settings:
> kcontrol > peripherals > storage media
>
> See what you find. Look for anything related to removable media.
>
> Kate
>

Thanks for reminding me. I might have got to that point on my own, eventually, 
but my thinking is always "I haven't changed anything, so why ... ?"; but it 
doesn't occur to me to look for the obvious. 

When machines try to do my thinking for me, stuff always gets messed up. 

Bill
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