Drag/ Drop from Samba to App support
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Hi there.
A minor annoyance I have been wanting to solve but cant work it out.
How do I Drag and Drop videos from a samba(NAS) to an app?
I use Shotcut to edit videos and at moment I'm having to manually copy videos from the NAS box to the laptop and then add the video to shotcut.
I'm pretty sure there is a way to drag/drop directly from the NAS to the App but can't work it out.
Playing video files with VLC across the LAN works fine as I installed the FUSE library files.
It would be great to get it sorted. any ideas?
I am a translator!
I am not sure what you mean exactly.
I configured systemd to mount my samba shares (from another machine running Trisquel as well) when I try accessing their predefined mount points, from Caja, a terminal or whatever. Then, I use them as if they were local, I don't notice any difference. So maybe that could solve your problem? My instructions are visible at https://metani.fr/share/guides/nas.html#local-acces-pc, but now it is French language only. It might be understandable for you though. I will make an English language version at some point.
Dragging a video file from a mounted samba share in Caja, onto Shotcut (open and ready to edit).
Ive attached another example of a MP3 and Audacity. If I try to Drag the file in Caja onto Adacity, nothing happens when I drop the file. Is there a way for files to open files "dropped" on them from a Samba Share location?
Hope this clarifies.
Audio/video editors may be attempting to write on the share, which will fail if they do not have permissions to do so (e.g. readonly). Players only need read access. You could run shotcut or audacity from a terminal, and see whether that gives you any clue about what goes wrong when drag and drop fails.
See also: "Note: Audacity requires fast, uninterrupted access to a hard drive or SSD to operate. Network storage, consumer-grade external hard drives or USB thumbdrives may be unreliable."
UPDATE: I am getting the same behavior with sftp. Audacity opens remote files through "Open" or "Import", but not through drag and drop.