{"id":2538,"date":"2019-03-26T22:21:44","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T05:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2538"},"modified":"2019-03-26T22:21:44","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T05:21:44","slug":"kde-plasma-softlink-to-ntfs-3g-partition-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2538","title":{"rendered":"KDE\/Plasma &#8211; Softlink to NTFS-3G Partition &#8211; Solution.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of those <em>not-sure-if-bug-or-feature<\/em> issues..\u00a0\u00a0 On my dual-boot Fedora\/Win7 system, I needed to access a &#8216;shared&#8217; NTFS (ntfs-3g) partition.\u00a0\u00a0 When I came to add a softlink to the NTFS partition on the Plasma Desktop, the link existed, but nothing showed on the Desktop.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Other softlinks &#8211; to EXT4 partitions &#8211; displayed OK.\u00a0\u00a0 I tested with an NTFS softlink in a directory (using Dolphin) but this did not show up either..<\/p>\n<p>The fix (workaround?) is to use &#8216;<strong>Create New<\/strong> \/ <strong>Link to Location (URL)<\/strong>&#8216; instead, and this displays and works OK.<\/p>\n<p>The link file contains:<br \/>\n<code>[Desktop Entry]<br \/>\nIcon=folder<br \/>\nType=Link<br \/>\nURL[$e]=file:\/\/\/win7ssd01\/<\/code><\/p>\n<p><em>Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0 March 26, 2019.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of those not-sure-if-bug-or-feature issues..\u00a0\u00a0 On my dual-boot Fedora\/Win7 system, I needed to access a &#8216;shared&#8217; NTFS (ntfs-3g) partition.\u00a0\u00a0 When I came to add a softlink to the NTFS partition on the Plasma Desktop, the link existed, but nothing showed on the Desktop.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Other softlinks &#8211; to EXT4 partitions &#8211; displayed OK.\u00a0\u00a0 I tested with <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2538\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,15,19,1236,1535],"tags":[2062,2060,2061,343,2063],"class_list":["post-2538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fedora","category-kde-2","category-linux-2","category-opinion","category-plasma-desktop","category-quirks","tag-faile-sto-display-on-desktop","tag-kde-plasma","tag-softlink-to-ntfs-3g-partion","tag-solution","tag-use-link-to-locationurl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2539,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538\/revisions\/2539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}