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MichelN1986

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Registered: 2015-01-03

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[SOLVED] Can't copy files to USB driver or Windows system

Hi all,

First of all i happy new year , I am Michel and i am new to linux since 3 months and tried alot of debian based distro's. The one that i liked was linux mint 17 cinnamon but it crashed alot for me. So i decided to search for a new distro and tried manjaro (arch based) it worked great on my system so i checked from where it was build on (arch linux). Did alot of search/research and decided i wanted a clean os built by my self, readed alot in the wiki, did some youtube searches and started to built in vmware first. Yeah for a total newbie it was a pain in the ass haha but since yesterday i did a dualboot with my windows 7 and works fine (Arch with cinnamon).

I have fixed all issues except the one that allows me to write files on my windows 7 disk / usb storage device / external hard drive. I always give me a error, even when i give the drive admin permission. How can i fix this ?

http://i.imgur.com/wOyhCjL.jpg

Also it keeps asking for my password (at first run) when i want to enter my windows hard drive

http://i.imgur.com/VRzPQEW.jpg

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Last edited by MichelN1986 (2015-01-03 15:21:56)

Head_on_a_Stick

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Registered: 2014-02-20

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't copy files to USB driver or Windows system

With thunar, thunar-volman, gvfs & udisks2 (if that is what you are using), you need to add a polkit rule using /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/10-enable-mount.rules:

polkit.addRule(function(action) {
    if (action.id == "org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-system") {
        return polkit.Result.YES;
    }
});

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udisks
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Thunar

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MichelN1986

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Registered: 2015-01-03

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't copy files to USB driver or Windows system

I used nemo-fileroller and that one had the same issue so i installed thunar and added the /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/10-enable-mount.rules as you posted and that fixed the issue with the password, but did not fix the issue with creating files on windows partition/usb/external drive

Last edited by MichelN1986 (2015-01-03 14:46:54)

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't copy files to USB driver or Windows system

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ntfs

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MichelN1986

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Registered: 2015-01-03

Posts: 16

Re: [SOLVED] Can't copy files to USB driver or Windows system

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ntfs

Hi,

thanks for that, installing the ntfs-3g did the trick

Last edited by MichelN1986 (2015-01-03 15:20:29)