What is the pendrive handling part of KDE?

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It seems that it requires a system reboot in order to function, but I wonder if it could just restart itself like the Network can.

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KDE Plasma or KDE linux?

Mounting is usually done by the underlying linux distrubution. KDE Plasma and KDE linux have a GUI interface to help with that.

KDE Linux:

Check your linux distrubution for how automounting is configured.

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KDE Plasma 6.7.5 on CachyOS

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Then start here:

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So it’s not something solvable on KDE’s end.

I thought that since I received the notification about the pendrive (that has a password) being connected while it couldn’t be accessed meant that it was a KDE issue.

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This would have been handy information to have in the original post.

However, generally no. Many KDE GUI elements are simply interfaces to underlying linux distro mechanics. I still don’t have all the details of exactly what you were doing or trying to achieve, but I expect the mechanics of what you are experiencing are not KDE. See the links I provided to understand how it all works.