Photos (Koko): how to navigate to/bookmark directories on a different drive?

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I read from my RSS feed that Photos (formerly known as Koko) had been brought to a point where users can start to use it to replace Gwenview. Downloaded it from Flathub, launched, but am not sure how to reach a directory that’s on my second NVMe drive (one that’s not the OS drive). The directory is in /mnt/Personal/ , but I can’t reach /mnt in the app. I can get to /_ Root and /_ Root > home, but can’t see a way of navigating to /mnt/.

If I right-click an image under /mnt/Personal/, click “open with: Photos”, and then press Esc after viewing the image, it goes to path like "/_ Root/run/user/1000/doc/ and then a convoluted directory name, with no other images being displayed in that directory.

Either I’m missing something basic here, or it’s more complicated than it should be. Anyone has any clue?

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can confirm

opening an image on my /home folders yields the correct path when “copy location” is selected

but opening an image from a mounted folder yields the run/user/... path instead of the mounted path.

then if use a flatpak permission manager like flatseal (didn’t see anything in discover) to allow access to the mounted file location, i can see that “copy location” will get the correct path.

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Flatpak? Flathub?

In openSUSE TW is available from repos as part of Gear:

D     \~/**Descargas**  zypper se -v koko                                                                  ✔  23:19:21  
Cargando datos del repositorio... 
Leyendo los paquetes instalados... 
 
S  | Name      | Type    | Version     | Arch   | Repository 
---+-----------+---------+-------------+--------+---------------------------- 
   | koko      | paquete | 26.08.0-1.1 | x86_64 | Repositorio principal (OSS) 
    name: koko 
   | koko-lang | paquete | 26.08.0-1.1 | noarch | Repositorio principal (OSS) 
    name: koko-lang

D     \~/**Descargas**  zypper info koko                                                                   ✔  23:19:35  
Cargando datos del repositorio... 
Leyendo los paquetes instalados... 
 
 
Información para paquete koko: 
------------------------------ 
Repositorio           : Repositorio principal (OSS) 
Nombre                : koko 
Versión               : 26.08.0-1.1 
Arquitectura          : x86_64 
Proveedor             : openSUSE 
Tamaño de instalación : 32,3 MiB 
Instalado             : No 
Estado                : no se ha instalado 
Paquete de fuentes    : koko-26.08.0-1.1.src 
URL ascendente        : https://apps.kde.org/koko/ 
Resumen               : Kirigami based gallery application 
Descripción           :  
    Koko is a simple image gallery application that is designed to view, edit and 
    share images.

Regards

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You can either allow Photos to see the mounted folder, or the entire system.

By default photos only sees your /home/user/ directory

To allow it you have to set it as read write in Permission Control in Plasma Settings.

Go to Permission Control - find the app - flatpak configuration - add the path as read write

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That fixed it, thanks.

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I have the same issue using Cinnamon on Mint Linux. Any suggestions?

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use flatseal to modify the flatpak permissions.