Dotan Cohen wrote:
I'm jumping into this discusion because my USB thumb drive does NOT appear on the desktop when I plug it in when I use KDE. And I can't find it anywhere in the file system, either. In gnome, on the other hand, it appears a few seconds after I plug it in.
Anybody think that this is strange? Any solutions? I googled a little for 'usb kde' and 'mount usb' but couldn't get anything useful out of that otherwise deep information well.
Mine doesn't show up on the KDE desktop either, but I can browse devices using the file browser and see /dev/sda1 from there. Double clicking on it brings it up. Not as nice, but doable. Can you even do this?
More information: I have a /media/Bo folder. In this folder there are four files which just happen to be the first four files that I ever moved into the usb device, in gnome I think. Those files have long since been deleted from the device, and the device reinsrted many times, but they are still there.
That happens when you copy files to a device that is not mounted. They simply end up under the mount point. What some people do is create a file under the mount point called "if you see this the device is not mounted" or similar.
If the storage device mounts properly, that text is not visible. When the device is not mounted, you see that text file. Could be handy?
Regards, Ed.
