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#1 2018-08-09 13:51:04
- archelaus
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[Solved] Cannot write to any external device
I randomly get write to my pendrives/external harddisk while mostly i dont. Therefore, i cant copy any of files now.I tried to google but no luck finding solution.
i dont understand why is it random.
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#2 2018-08-09 13:52:06
- loqs
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Re: [Solved] Cannot write to any external device
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#3 2018-08-09 13:55:44
- Trilby
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Re: [Solved] Cannot write to any external device
i dont understand why is it random.
Neither do we. We don't even understand how you are mounting these drives, what/how you are trying to write to them, if this is in some DE, or in the tty, or both, or ...
We don't understand any of this because you've told us absolutely nothing about any of this. In addition to the link above please have a read through the following:
http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
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#4 2018-08-09 14:31:44
- archelaus
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Re: [Solved] Cannot write to any external device
Extremely sorry for not following the format of questions.
i use gnome.
At the time of posting i didnt know what else could i post.
By the way it seems that i can write again ,after installing ntfs-3g.
Sorry for any trouble.
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#5 2018-08-09 14:41:12
- loqs
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Re: [Solved] Cannot write to any external device
Were all the devices that you could not write to NTFS format and those that you could FAT? Did any device that you could write to become unwritable to?
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#6 2018-08-09 16:14:38
- archelaus
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Re: [Solved] Cannot write to any external device
Were all the devices that you could not write to NTFS format and those that you could FAT? Did any device that you could write to become unwritable to?
yeah, they were ntfs format. whatever things i could write to previously were corrupted(though only a few).
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#7 2018-08-09 17:06:50
- ewaller
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Re: [Solved] Cannot write to any external device
I think you need to read https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NTFS-3G
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