[dolphin] [Bug 427619] New: bad startup behaviour when last visited removable media was not mounted

[Franz Trischberger]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=427619

            Bug ID: 427619
           Summary: bad startup behaviour when last visited removable
                    media was not mounted
           Product: dolphin
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
                OS: Linux
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: dolphin-bugs-null at kde.org
          Reporter: franz.trischberger at gmail.com
                CC: kfm-devel at kde.org
  Target Milestone: ---

Created attachment 132312
  --> https://bugs.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=132312&action=edit
screenshot

I have an external HDD permanently attached to my dads' desktop PC. When he
browsed that disk before shutting down the PC Dolphin will now try to load that
dir when first starting dolphin after booting. Which fails as I do not like to
auto-mounted removable media. This results in an empty view and an error
message: see attached screenshot.

dolphin should try harder in this situation:
First it could try to find the media this folder belongs to. If it isn't
available it could as well just load the users' home directory, probably
keeping the message so the user knows something went wrong.

Reason for this report:
My dad paniced because he thought his files were deleted as the view was empty.
He saw the warning box but didn't understand it was about removable media. He
thought his home directory doesn't exist. He didn't want to press any button
because he was afraid this could make things worse. (Not every user is a
geek...)

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