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mizapf, You are definitely pointing to the solution!

Previous versions of messui prior to 139 have the following values in the ini/mess.ini file
# CORE CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
#
readconfig 1

Messui 139 is the first version to use
# CORE CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
#
readconfig 1
writeconfig 1

For some reason messui 141 has
# CORE CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
#
readconfig 1
writeconfig 0
but it will still mount and save for future use items in Device view and Picker.

The current SVN version has
# CORE CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
#
readconfig 1
writeconfig 0
and will not mount anything. Based on your suggestion I manually changed writeconfig to 1. There is no way to do it from messui itself, that I have found.
Now messui SVN will mount devices but they are not read from the computer ini files when messui is restarted. The same ini files can be read using an older version of messui.

So if there is anyone who can unravel the source code, messui needs to be responsive to the setting readconfig 1, which it currently is not. I believe the default value of writeconfig should be 1, specially as it does not seem adjustable from the program itself.