Casey Bralla via plug on 2 Mar 2022 05:57:50 -0800


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Re: [PLUG] Fixing broken link on Ubuntu (Gnome) desktop

I don't know the answer, but maybe logout and log back in to the desktop (no reboot).


On 3/2/22 08:54, Walt Mankowski via plug wrote:
Hi all,

I'm running a stock Ubuntu 20.04 with the default desktop. On my desktop is a symlink to a spreadsheet that's on a network share. Work makes us periodically change our passwords, and yesterday was my lucky day.

]Now the link has a red circle with an X in it. I thought that was because I needed to log back into the share. I've done that. Now the actual symlink works fine, but on the desktop the icon still has the X and doesn't open the spreadsheet. I don't see any obvious way in the UI to tell it to retry.

I'm sure I could delete it and recreate it and it would be fine. I also feel confident that it will be fixed the next time I reboot. But seems like there must be some way to fix this short of doing that. Is this a bug, or am I missing something obvious?

Walt


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