Cannot open Excel file stored on a Windows NTFS partition mounted to Linux

[MathisP75]

I get the following error message:

System information:

Operating System: Arch Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.15.0
Qt Version: 6.9.1
Kernel Version: 6.15.5-arch1-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 32 × 13th Gen Intel® Core™ i9-13900HX
Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (31.1 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor 1: Mesa Intel® Graphics
Graphics Processor 2: llvmpipe
Manufacturer: LENOVO
Product Name: 82WQ
System Version: Legion Pro 7 16IRX8H

[oskardotglobal]

You can currently only open files on the home drive, sorry.

You can however try mounting the external drive to the VM too, then you could at least open them when Excel is already launched

[KernelGhost]

@MathisP75 This may not work, but you might like to try adding a symlink to /media or /mnt within your home directory and testing whether you can open files on external drives within Windows that way? Something like ln -s /mnt ~/mnt?