External HDD is not being recognized on applications

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My External HD is recognized in computer, so I can enter and browse into folders, see files, etc.

But when I open a application and wants to search something there or set my External HD as default saving for some application, it’s not being recognized.

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More… info… please…

Please…

:pray:

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So I can open it and browse, copy, cut files. That’s what we expect. But it doesn’t show when I open an application. For example, I need to insert a file in a program. For image editing, video editing, etc. If that file is into my External HD, which I plug and un-plug with a USB cable, I can’t open that file.

But that’s happening only in programs and applications. In the thunar file folder, for example, I can open the HD.

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What says mount on console ?

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As in, in the application’s file browser, the external drive doesn’t show in the side panel?

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Is this external drive attached via USB? How is the drive formatted. What about Dolphin? Most of us Plasma users are familiar with Dolphin. Also I didn’t see where you said the drive was mounted?

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I’ll mention one more dumb think…sometimes the File dialog in applications is not expanded enough to see all the options. The Places is at the bottom and maybe be obscured.

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Exactly!

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I have the same behavior in many applications.
Not much of an issue since then content can still be accessed from the mount point.

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Just for the record, if those applications were installed as Snaps or FlatPaks, then they run containerized and then they don’t have any access to anything outside your home directory.

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