On Wednesday, 30-10-2024 at 05:52 Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> 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.
+1
George.
>
> > 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
>
>
