Comment 51 for bug 1643706

At our university, we use a network-mounted /home directory, but it is inherently slow. Every employee is advised to store data that doesn't have to be shared among all systems in their local /scratch directory structure on that machine (desktops, practically), which is backed up regularly. So there you have a perfectly valid reason for using neither /home nor /media.

I'm speaking from an end user perspective, and it's completely inconceivable that I cannot access arbitrary files on my system. I have a snap application where I can hit "File > Open" in the menu, and the dialogue displays my Ubuntu shortcuts. All of them point to locations somewhere in /scratch. When I click on them, they don't open, and I had all kinds of suspicions but this. So really, from a user perspective, this is most definitely a bug.

Using symbolic links doens't work, and since I don't have root access to the machine, I cannot simply re-mount devices. Is there any way to work around this until the fix actually reaches users (Ubuntu 18.04, again with no choice over the OS version)?