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How to access files on other drives?
(lemmy.zip)
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Try opening GNOME disks. Do the drives appear there? If yes, what filesystem do they use?
@GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip you should be able to follow this guide to use GNOME disks or KDE Partition Manager (depends on which desktop environment you're using).
Thanks, i managed to find the disks app (I went with the gnome(?) DE) and, after some reckless experimenting, figured out how to tell the system that they are not windows exclusive partitions and it should load them.
I then pinned them to the quick access thing, which is okay for now to watch some movies from my media drive. Though I would prefer if the contents showed up in the according system folders for music and videos
What you're looking for is called a symbolic link or symlink. It basically creates a shortcut to a folder in another location. Creating the symlink creates a new folder, so you can either use it to link to new subfolders inside the video and music folders in your home or delete the existing video and music folders in your home and use the symlink to recreate them.
This won't delete the shortcut to Video or Music from your Files browser.
So if your videos are stored in a drive mounted at /mnt/datadrive/videos/ and you want to create a symlink folder called video2 in your home directory you'd run this from your home directory:
ln -s /mnt/datadrive/videos video2
Note there's no slash at the end of the path for the source folder. I forget why, but you have to leave it off.