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0 pointsneves8y ago0 comments

I thought it would give me total interoperability. That I could edit an movie in a windows app, run it through ffmepg, and go back to editing.

Cygwin is still useful.

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wvenable8y ago

It does but you have to do that from the Windows file system not the Linux one. So from Linux you are accessing /mnt/c/Users/you/somedocument and from Windows it's C:\Users\you\somedocument.

nevesOP8y ago

But isn't this a new thing? I believe you couldn't do it in the initial versions.

wvenable8y ago

No, it's always been that way from the initial release. It's literally the only file system interopt that exists.

You're not supposed to access the Linux filesystem from Windows -- it's in a system hidden area of your profile but some people still tried to mess with it with unfortunate consequences.

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0 pointsneves8y ago0 comments

I thought it would give me total interoperability. That I could edit an movie in a windows app, run it through ffmepg, and go back to editing.

Cygwin is still useful.

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wvenable8y ago

It does but you have to do that from the Windows file system not the Linux one. So from Linux you are accessing /mnt/c/Users/you/somedocument and from Windows it's C:\Users\you\somedocument.

nevesOP8y ago

But isn't this a new thing? I believe you couldn't do it in the initial versions.

wvenable8y ago

No, it's always been that way from the initial release. It's literally the only file system interopt that exists.

You're not supposed to access the Linux filesystem from Windows -- it's in a system hidden area of your profile but some people still tried to mess with it with unfortunate consequences.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse