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armageddon51

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Registered: 2021-12-14

Posts: 7

Program associated with a media file cannot open it

First venture in Q4OS. I install it on a very old EEEpc 1000 (French). Install without issue. My Linux experience is as old also. Very surprise of this mature advanced OS. Works fine on it. A lot of settings.

Here are my little problem. The PC has 2 "ssd discs", one 8GB (!!) for system and a 32GB. I mount the 32GB in the fstab file to a fresh folder "/media/maurice/data" using protection "755" and ownership to me. I made a few folders in it no problem. I have made an association with mp3 files to Audacious and jpg to Shotwell. It work flawlessly if the files are in my home folders. However if those files are on the second partition, they launch the correct program but the program cannot find the file (see error) ;

"Erreur en lisant file:///home/maurice/system%3A/media/sdb5/Librairies/Musique/Stacey%20Kent%20-%20Raconte-moi%20%282010%29/Stacey%20Kent%20-%20D%C3%A9suets%20-%20Raconte%20moi.mp3 :
Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type"

Secondly, launching an associated jpg with Shotwell on that second partition, I get the error that Shotwell does not exist. Works fine in the home images folder.

Must be something simple but I cannot find it. A little help will be appreciated.

Tx

Tolkem

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Registered: 2019-10-06

Posts: 487

Re: Program associated with a media file cannot open it

If I got that right, you mounted a second disk on "/media/maurice/data", but looking at the output of the error:
"file:///home/maurice/system%3A/media/sdb5/Librairies/Musique/Stacey%20Kent%20-%20Raconte-moi%20%282010%29/Stacey%20Kent%20-%20D%C3%A9suets%20-%20Raconte%20moi.mp3"  the path looks different to me.

armageddon51

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Registered: 2021-12-14

Posts: 7

Re: Program associated with a media file cannot open it

Yes you are right the path output by the OS/application is all over the place. "data" has been replaced by "sdb5" (which is the right partition) and a whole bunch of "%xxx" characters. The right one should be "/media/maurice/data/Librairies/Musique/ and the file name.

Like I said, once the file is put in the home/musique folder, it plays fine on double clic.

armageddon51

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Registered: 2021-12-14

Posts: 7

Re: Program associated with a media file cannot open it

Oops something strange happen. I drop the music file into audacious and it took it no problem. Now all the files in the "data" partition open up the associated program with no error. It seems to be a problem with Konqueror which substitute "data" for "sdb5" but if I make sure it is the right path shown, it works. Go figure

Thanks anyway.