I am working on a Ubuntu workstation with several disks. Jabref is only able to open files on the main disks, but not on others disks. A old Jabref (3.8.2) is able to see all disks and to open files on each disk.
Is it a bug or can I change a parameter?
Could you provide screenshots? What version of Ubuntu exactly?
I attached a pdf file with two screenshots
The left figure corresponds to the window (File/Open) with Jabref 3.8.2 and the right figure with Jabref 5.12
data and data2 appears in Jabref 3.8.2 (in yellow on the figure) but not with Jabref 5.12
the file system is displayed below with df command
Sys. de fichiers blocs de 1K Utilisé Disponible Uti% Monté sur
tmpfs 19641996 2756 19639240 1% /run
/dev/sda2 159603712 88852692 68174700 57% /
tmpfs 98209976 1288 98208688 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5120 12 5108 1% /run/lock
efivarfs 512 63 445 13% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
/dev/sda1 1098628 6232 1092396 1% /boot/efi
/dev/sda4 296960000 9071340 285808420 4% /data
/dev/sdb1 7811938304 1342813072 6469125232 18% /data2
storm:/users 14998085632 5226853376 9771232256 35% /users
tmpfs 19641992 3968 19638024 1% /run/user/13011
the Ubuntu version is 23.10, but I believe that it is not associated to the distribution number.
Not only Jabref works correctly with Ubuntu, but also all others applications.
Regards, Pascal
Did you have the snap version installed? This might be the case
You could try to install the deb version or try the portable with dpkg -i from terminal, otherwise you still might end up with the snap version
Solved! Thanks you!
I do not understand why the snap installation gives this bug.
The Jabref version is the same in both cases!
Regards, Pascal
The snap version is sandboxed/more restricted by the OS
They are not the same. Snap, like Flatpak is more sandboxed (thereby more secure) than simple deb packages, but at the same time it comes with a tradeoff in usability.
See for example