Can not access directories which are symbolic links.

[dhpinkerton]

Description of the bug

When importing a STL file I can no longer access symlink directories.

File -> Import -> Import STL

My Documents directory is no longer visible.

As per attached screen shots.

I also can no longer Export G-code to a symlink directory.

No longer able to open an STL file by double clicking the file. No longer any Desktop Intergration?

Project file & How to reproduce

PrusaSlicer-BugReport_DHP.zip

Checklist of files included above

• Project file
• Screenshot

Version of PrusaSlicer

Version 2.9.0

Operating system

Fedora 41

Printer model

Creality Ender 5 Pro

[theopensourcerer]

+1. Affecting me too. Just installed 2.9.0 using flatpak and I can't access my "projects" directory which is a symlink to another physical drive on my PC. Am running Ubuntu 20.04.

[jantastique]

+1 same here. 2.9.0 flatpak Mint 22.
NFS shares are not available for import. Receiving "Loading of model file failed" by drag & drop from NFS.
Basically it seems I'm only able to access files in my home directory.

[jantastique]

+1 same here. 2.9.0 flatpak Mint 22. NFS shares are not available for import. Receiving "Loading of model file failed" by drag & drop from NFS. Basically it seems I'm only able to access files in my home directory.

ok, I figured out the behavior in my case appears due to the sandbox restictions of flatpak. So I needed to add --filesystem=/mnt/path/to/workingdir to the command line starting the app (see Flatpak permissions).

I successfully tested this with symlinks as well, by adding their paths as described.

Since I have no experience with flatpak (actually avoiding it whenever possible), I can't tell if this is a good solution, but works for me in this case.

[dhpinkerton]

I've managed to fix mine by...

flatpak override --user --filesystem=host com.prusa3d.PrusaSlicer

To give the app access to all filesystems.