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default USB mount point breaks many things

Bug #1072769 reported by Robert Roth
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Bug Description

In quantal, a newly connected USB media device is mounted by default in /media/USERNAME instead of the /media mountpoint used in older releases (related askubuntu question at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/util-linux/+question/210769). This breaks programs using absolute paths, like music players (Rhythmbox), photo library management (Shotwell) and Safely Remove from the unity launcher (the quicklist item does not appear on partitions of an USB HDD), maybe there are more.

In such cases there should be some sort of migration or at least a symlink to the old location (as a workaround for files not being found in photo and/or music libraries), and this default mountpoint change should also be well documented (see bug #1068277)

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

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Constantine (theaspect) wrote :

It would be great if we have symlink in home directory ~/Media to /media/UserName

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