External Disk Intrusion

[Phil Dobbin]

On 08/01/2020 17:49, Colin Law wrote:

> On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 at 15:06, Phil Dobbin <bukowskiscat at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I discovered that an old copy of Ubuntu Tweak that I had lying around
>> has an option to disable the automatic folder opening which was the
>> problem. So, job done.
>>
>> Thanks for everybody's help & onward we go.
> 
> Are you happy about the fact that (presumably) it is routinely
> unmounting and remounting without understanding why?
> That could be embarrassing if it were to happen while it was being
> written to, if it is a hardware issue.

luckily all that was happening was Nautilus launching the drive's folder
in Files so there's no actual mount/unmount problem. If that was the
case, I would definitely be resorting to the command line to sort it out.

Cheers,

  Phil.

-- 
Man's unhappiness stems from his inability
to sit quietly in his room.
      Pascal

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