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Re: unable to save to usb drives from chrome

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On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 12:46 PM Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 29/10/2024 20:14, Charles Curley wrote:
> > On Tue, 29 Oct 2024 10:05:44 +0300 Semih Ozlem wrote:
> >> and I am no longer able to save or download files to usb drives from
> >> chrome or browsers, I get the message Need permission to download.
> [...]
> > Can you copy files to the USB drives manually, e.g. using cp at the
> > command line?
> >
> > I would check permissions and ownerships of the directories in and
> > above the USB devices. Especially, check the mount permissions.
>
> Are USB drives mounted by the same user? In bookworm udisks (used by
> GUI) restricts access by default to the user who requested mount.
>
> In the case of snap or flatpak sandboxing it may be a different kind of
> permissions. Check desktop environment settings for application permissions.

I hope Snap is not making its way into Debian. Or Snap is optional in
Debian, and not required.

> Some years ago I noticed that Firefox from snap (Ubuntu) could not
> access files from /usr/share/doc. Perhaps it was aimed to prevent
> stealing some data (while making home directory available).

Yep, this is one of the problems with Snap. I've never had the problem
when using .deb packages.

Jeff

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unable to save to usb drives from chrome Semih Ozlem <semihozlemlinuxuser@gmail.com> - 2024-10-29 08:10 +0100
  Re: unable to save to usb drives from chrome Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2024-10-29 14:20 +0100
    Re: unable to save to usb drives from chrome Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-10-29 17:50 +0100
      Re: unable to save to usb drives from chrome Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2024-10-29 20:00 +0100
        Re: unable to save to usb drives from chrome George at Clug <Clug@goproject.info> - 2024-10-29 22:50 +0100
        Re: unable to save to usb drives from chrome Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-10-30 03:20 +0100
          Re: unable to save to usb drives from chrome Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-10-30 03:30 +0100
            Re: unable to save to usb drives from chrome Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-10-30 16:50 +0100
  Re: unable to save to usb drives from chrome Timothy M Butterworth <timothy.m.butterworth@gmail.com> - 2024-10-29 16:30 +0100
  Re: unable to save to usb drives from chrome Will Mengarini <seldon@eskimo.com> - 2024-10-30 05:50 +0100
    Re: unable to save to usb drives from chrome Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-10-30 17:10 +0100

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