where is gvfs?

[Karl Auer]

Many moons ago, I seem to recall it was possible to make mounted
filesystems - especially SMB (VIFS) file systems - visible to non-GIO
programs by linking to .gvfs. Something like this:

   ln -s ./.gvfs mynetworkdrives

.. after which you could browse through ~/mynetworkdrives to files on
your network drive. This is a long time ago, my memory may be faulty.

I have a need for this now - $partner is using now using Thunderbird on
Linux, and when attaching files (or saving them) it can't "see" network
drives.

I can't find a .gvfs directory in my home directory or anywhere else,
though I can see a bunch of gvfs-related data in ~/.local/share/gvfs-
metadata)

Do I have to do something special to make it appear, has it disappeared
into history...?

Regards, K.

PS: My actual problem is having Thunderbird see Samba network drives.
Any solutions welcome. My googling only shows that lots of people have
the same question, and that the only real solution is to mount the
network locations on mountpoints, which is ugly.

 
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