Thanks a lot for the follow up and the details. Glad to hear it is working for you. I close this issue as it seems there is nothing to do on the Picard side.

Hello Phillip,

I wanted to provide an update regarding the Drag-and-Drop issue I reported earlier.

After further testing and ensuring my system is fully updated, the problem seems to have resolved itself. Drag-and-Drop is now working as expected with SMB shares on my main system. Unfortunately, I could not pinpoint the exact cause or solution, as I made no significant changes apart from keeping the system updated.

Thank you for your attention and support. I appreciate the work you do to maintain Picard!

Best regards,

Michael

Hello Phillip,

I wanted to follow up on the issue I reported earlier. I tested MusicBrainz Picard with the same SMB mounting script on another Arch Linux system with KDE Plasma, and Drag-and-Drop works perfectly there. This indicates that the problem is specific to my main system and not a general issue with Picard or Arch/KDE.

I apologize for the confusion caused by my initial report. I'll investigate further on my system to identify what might be causing the issue and let you know if I find something relevant.

Thank you for your time and support!

Thanks a lot for the details. My suspicion was that the method of mounting with cifs directly or via GIO might make a difference.

I'll attempt to reproduce this and investigate.

The SMB shares were mounted using two different methods for testing:

1. Using mount with cifs:
sudo mount -t cifs //SERVER/SHARE /mnt/smbshare -o username=YOURUSERNAME,password=YOURPASSWORD,vers=3.0,iocharset=utf8

2. Using gio mount:
gio mount smb://SERVER/SHARE

In both cases, the shares were accessible through the respective mount points (/mnt/smbshare for mount and /run/user/$UID/gvfs/ for gio).

The issue occurs with both methods of mounting, and files can be added through the "Add Files" menu but not via drag-and-drop.

For the mount method, I used a script for convenience:

#!/bin/bash

MOUNT_POINT="/mnt/smbshare"
SMB_PATH="//SERVER/SHARE"
USERNAME="YOURUSERNAME"
PASSWORD="YOURPASSWORD"

if mount | grep -q "$MOUNT_POINT"; then
    sudo umount "$MOUNT_POINT"
else
    sudo mount -t cifs "$SMB_PATH" "$MOUNT_POINT" -o username="$USERNAME",password="$PASSWORD",vers=3.0,iocharset=utf8
fi

How exactly were the SMB shares mounted?