I don't know if this is related, yesterday I plugged in an NTFS drive and it really flaked out. flicker-flicker-flicker! Multiple Konq windows opened. I had to close the automatically opened Konq windows, and then access the device through the devices list.
Then it opened just fine.
There were at least two entries in the devices table for the NTFS-formatted USB drive. Very strange. I picked the one that
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