On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 12:46 PM Max Nikulin <maniku...@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
