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Ubuntu Version :Ubuntu Studio 26.04
Desktop Environment (if applicable)
Problem Description:
Trying to import photos from /media directories into Rapid Photo Downloader
Steps:
Attach external drive
Media directories are not visible as sources of photos
Relevant System Information :
What I’ve Tried :
I tried using the “Download photos using Rapid Photo Downloader” from the options under “Disk & Devices”
According to the manual page of rapid-photo-downloader (RPD) it’s trying to detect and talk directly to photo devices , whereas /media is just a filesystem path where such devices’ photo storage can be mounted for you to browse and copy etc.
They should be under “this computer”; you may need to actually mount them first, though, by clicking on the device in the file manager or in the dock. Or just direct RPD to your device and let it do its magic.
From Ubuntu 26.04, external drives are mounted at /run/media:
In ubuntu 26.04 USB mounted drives are no longer in /media/$USER/volid but in /run/media/$USER/volid is this a permanent change?
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Why, yes, I keep forgetting. That’s a bit of a curve ball for users, though. Perhaps one should just make /media a symbolic link to /run/media then:
sudo rmdir /media && sudo ln -s /run/media /media
I think that’s just an oversight and should have been part of that migration.
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I have just reported this as a bug:
In Ubuntu 26.04 UDisks2 uses /run/media as the location for user mounts. That's a bit of a curve ball for users who expect it to use /media. [1]
I don't know if this warrants an SRU, but the fix is rather trivial, IMHO; unless I'm missing...
@ncldjr2 , if the above command line does fix your issue, please consider adding yourself to the affected users list.
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