Mounted Volumes

Recently moved to 17.10 from 16.04 and I note that the behavior of Caja has changed with regard to bind mounts. It now regards each bind mount as a volume, it did not do this in the past. This is less than ideal - I use several bind mounts for good reason and Caja now splats these on the desktop, with the label of the volume. For example, I mount a media volume on /mnt/Media, and then bind mount /mnt/Media/Movies to /home/quonsar/Movies and /mnt/Media/Music to /home/quonsar/Music. These two appear on my desktop both called “Media”.

I’ve turned off mounted volumes on desktop, but this is not ideal because I have other devices I mount from time to time and do want to see them on Desktop. These mounts also clutter up the left pane in Caja, simply showing up as two volumes each named Media. While not a deal-breaker, this is confusing and misleading. Is this a bug? Is there some benefit to this behavior I’m not seeing? Thanks!

You might try thunar as your file manager.

It may not have that problem.

Thanks fixit7 for the reply but I’m heavily invested in Caja. I have many caja-actions I use daily. I’m not looking to switch. I just wondered if anyone else had noted the new behavior and if its a bug or ‘feature’ and if there is a way around it. :grinning:

Have you tried posting on Ask Ubuntu or Ubuntu forums?