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Nuwan Thisara
Asked: 2019-03-31 01:40:29 +0800 CST

How to fix grayed out options on right click menu Ubuntu 18.04

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I am on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and updated to the latest software. I have replaced hard drive of my laptop with an SSD. Original hard drive is fixed where the DVD drive used to be. Windows and Ubuntu both installed on the SSD. BIT folder resides on my original hard drive. BIT folder is just a randomly selected one. None on the hard drive partitions or SSD partitions allow me to use Cut, Move to or rename options. But the places on the side bar on the picture allow me to do so.

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except the places in the picture below,

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How to fix this problem.

Permission is set like this.

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# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=c8b94b00-5f20-45ce-95a2-450940d31e71 /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=1a1cf76f-ffee-4437-b9df-e666e600ac87 none            swap    sw              0       0
permissions menu 18.04

1 Answers

  1. Its the write Permission on the Files itself within the Folder, to cut them u need write, for copy read is enough. So you have to go into the Folder u want to move/cut (and all Subfolders) and give yourself write Permission on all contained Files.

    sudo chmod u+w -r "Path/to/what/to/cut"

    This might pose a Security Risk afterwards so you can record the Original Permissions with

    sudo getfacl -aRP "AccessRightsOriginal.txt"

    and restore them afterwards with

    sudo setfacl -MRP "AccessRightsOriginal.txt"
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