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It's worked for me in the past, what is this now?
Dragging a video to k3b I get the message "non local files not supported".
I don't understand.

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Originally Posted by old grouch (Post 6166086)

It's worked for me in the past, what is this now? Dragging a video to k3b I get the message "non local files not supported". I don't understand.

Neither do we, without details. You don't tell us anything about the file, version/distro of Linux, version of K3b, anything that's been updated/done/changed since it last worked, where the input file is coming from, etc. Without details, we can't guess.

That typically means that the file you're trying to use is on a network drive (that is "non-local"). Copy it to your hard drive for use.

Yes, for some reason this has been normal behavior for a while. The web search for the issue goes back a while.

Easy is to do as TB0ne suggested. Harder may be to look at how you access this resource. Do easy.

One web page suggested smb support.

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Originally Posted by old grouch (Post 6166086)

It's worked for me in the past, what is this now?

That must have been the distant past. Here is a 12 years old thread about this error: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=827219.