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[–] Natanael@lemmy.zip 3 points 9 months ago

In Unixy environments like Mac and Linux the application can't always know what the mountpoint of a drive is so it's not always obvious which root folder to put those index/config files in if it's a portable drive or network drive. Some mountpoints are standard per each OS, but not everything sticks to the standard.