So #KDE filemanager #dolphin doesn't search through symbolic links and I had already spent about a year or so cursing #baloo whereas it worked fine on my laptop.
I had to get #fstab bind mounts to mount specific directories from another drive onto my home directory. Everything worked!
Now using #zfs meant I had to force the correct order of mounting else I have empty directories.
fstab's #systemd option - x-systemd.after=datapool.mount came to rescue and everything works again.