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kalenpw
Asked: 2016-07-23 13:13:30 +0800 CST

You do not have the permissions necessary to view the contents of "HDD"

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So I was recently doing an Arch install and ended up formatting my HDD in the process with fdisk. I gave up on Arch and reinstalled Ubuntu 14.04. Now whenever I try and open my HDD in Nautilus I get an error 'This Location could not be displayed. You do not have permissions necessary to view the contents of "HDD".'

I can use sudo nautilus and am able to view the files just fine. I can also format and relabel it with sudo gnome-disks , but the issue is that is a pain to do and would rather just have access to it without being root. I've tried running sudo chmod -R ug+rw /media/kalenpw/HDD but that does not solve this issue.

All the answers I find about this issue are about folders that always require elevated permissions, but this is the entire drive I can't access so they don't apply

Thanks for the help.

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You should change owners. Run this command:

    sudo chown $USER: /media/$USER/HDD

    where $USER will complete to your current Ubuntu user and HDD is the name of the partition in question

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  2. After doing chown and chmod ... In default file manager like Nemo -> right click on the folder or click on the background in you are inside that folder already -> properties -> Permissions -> Apply Permissions to enclosed files OR make the owner able to "read and write"

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