Gidday, I've found a small problem with the way links are handled,

on my desktop there is a link to a HDD device mounted under /mnt/G. This works fine when I click on it on my desktop but when I am (for example) opening a file with Kaffeine, I can't click on these links on my desktop and have the "file open" dialogue follow them because they see them as actual .desktop files.

Is there a workaround?

Cheers.

That is what you would expect to happen with any file. However from a users prospective i can see how that would become confusing. You can workaround the problem by running the following command:
ln -s /mnt/G/ $HOME/Desktop/GDrive

Which will create a symbolic link to that folder. Any application will now be able to follow this "shortcut"

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