Feature: Add support for pinning shortcuts to favorites

[Richard-HM]

What feature or improvement do you think would benefit Files?

When a shortcut to a folder location is pinned to the sidebar favorites section. It shows as missing location when clicked it shows access denied.

Step to reproduce

1. Create a shortcut to a folder
2. Right click the created shortcut
3. Select pin to favorites
4. Open the pinned item
5. See Access denied

Requirements

• Pinning a shortcut should pin the target destination to the sidebar

Files Version

2.3.11.0

Windows Version

10.19043.1899

Logs

debug.log debug_fulltrust.log

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[MalteTasler]

Do you mean that the folder itself should get pinned? In that case, the context menu of the shortcut should have an option named "Pin the destination folder to favorites".

Pinning a shortcut itself would be useless, or does someone know what a possible usecase of that would be?

[hecksmosis]

Should pinning a shortcut just pin the referred folder or not?

[yaira2]

Yes, but this issue might actually be resolved with #10800

[yaira2]

@Rick-HM this is supported in v2.4.33.