Accessing my external drives

[nypaulie]

I have a collection of movies in .iso form. Because they are large files I keep them on an external hard drive. I know how to use Makemkv to turn them into .mkv files. My problem is locating them. How do I locate them using the file finder icon? The drives don’t show up like they do from my Linux file finder app.

[Woodstock]

Is there a reason why you don't extract the movie files from them, and name them with the name of the movie? That's generally the reason for using an app like MakeMKV...

[bmillham]

You need to select Computer and then go to where the drives are mounted (probably /media or /mnt).

[nypaulie]

You wrote: “ You need to select Computer and then go to where the drives are mounted (probably /media or /mnt).”.
That’s what I’m trying, but the drives do not show up, unlike they do when I’m simply using a file finder. Maybe my version of Makemkv needs some tweaking whatever that might be.

[bmillham]

Are you using a snap or flatpak? If so then you probably need to give it permission to access the drives.