Drive path changes with every mount

[Alexandru Lesi]

Hi,

I have all my music files on a VeraCrypt drive that I mount on startup (Fedora 35). If I run pwd in that folder I get:

/media/veracrypt1/Music/Collection

However if I add this folder to Mixxx, a music software I use, it turns into:

/run/user/1000/doc/e721b51a/Collection

And the number e721b51a changes on every mount, requiring me to relink the folder on every startup. I tried creating a symlink to that folder on my OS drive but the path displayed in Mixxx ended up being the same, so I suspect it avoids symlinks. Then I asked on the Mixxx forum and got the following reply:

I am using custom symlinks to my external, encrypted LUKS drives without issues on Fedora 35, i.e. the music folder in Mixxx points to a symlink. All symlink paths are preserved in Mixxx and not resolved to the canonical path.

Probably related to the custom VeraCrypt FUSE driver and not a Mixxx issue.

Is there anything I can do about this? Is there a way to keep the same hash for example?

Link to the other post https://mixxx.discourse.group/t/issue-with-symlinks-in-library-path-on-encrypted-drive/24084

[RealTehreal]

I just mounted a VeraCrypt volume and opened some videos into VLC. I cannot reproduce this issue with VLC at all. The volume is mounted @ /media/veracrypt1, and the file paths represented by VLC are all pointed to the mounting point.

You should try again with other software, e.g. VLC, to confirm or disprove that it's a VeraCrypt issue.