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** Changed in: nautilus
       Status: Unknown => Confirmed

** Changed in: nautilus
   Importance: Unknown => Medium

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Title:
  Clicking symlink to a non-mounted disk gives misleading error message

Status in Nautilus:
  Confirmed
Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  If you have a symlink to a disk that is not auto-mounted, then
  clicking on it gives an error message like "The Link "My Pictures" is
  Broken. Move it to the Rubbish Bin? This link cannot be used, because
  its target "/media/Acer/Users/Steven/Pictures/My Pictures" doesn't
  exist."

  For a beginner this message is startling, and suggesting that it
  should be deleted worrying, and not particularly helpful.

  The best option from a usability point of view would be to mount the
  disk, but I bet that's hard to do.

  Second best, do not offer to delete it, and say something along the
  lines of "The file or directory that "My Pictures" links to
  (/media/Acer/Users/Steven/Pictures/My Pictures) is not currently
  available. You should check that the disk is mounted."

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: nautilus 1:3.2.1-0ubuntu4.2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-17.30-generic 3.0.22
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-17-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Apr 17 22:35:28 2012
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
  SourcePackage: nautilus
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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