Why do my gvfs mounts not show up under ~/.gvfs or /run/user/<login>/gvfs?

Solved the problem (kind of).

On Ubuntu 12.10 the mountpoint appears in /run/user/(your username)/gvfs/sftp\:host\=\192.168.xxx.xxx.

Hope that helps

The ~/.gvfs directory should be a FUSE mount handled by the gvfs-fuse-daemon process. If the directory appears to be empty, it would indicate that gvfs-fuse-daemon did not start correctly.

You could try starting it manually with the following command:

/usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-fuse-daemon ~/.gvfs

If that fails, you could try checking whether anything else is mounted there, or even delete and recreate the ~/.gvfs directory first. If things still fail, could you update your question and provide any error messages printed by gvfs-fuse-daemon?

** On 14.04 the daemon is called gvfsd-fuse and can be found in /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-fuse.

In Ubuntu 12.10 the paths were changed:

$ mount |grep gvfs
gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/pcm/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=pcm)