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Hello! I am using thunar (with thunar-volman, thunar-archive-plugin) on pekwm. When I set everything up, everything worked just fine. However, after a few reboots when i log in, and open thunar, my external drives are shown, but everything in them has little lock symbols. What does that mean? And how do I fix it? If it helps, the external drive in question is an fat32 drive.
*I don't have ntfs-3g installed, because everything worked without it for a while. Before I install it, is it really necessary, since I was using the drive w/o it?
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You wrote the drive is formatted with fat32 so you don't need the ntfs-3g package as it is only for ntfs support.
Can you access your drives via thunar or shell?
Did you try another filemanager such as pcmanfm?
With the latest version of thunar occured a couple of problems, hence I'm asking.
Last edited by orschiro (2010-05-24 07:00:59)
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Well, I can access the drive. But using files in the drive but I can't seem to write to it. For example, I have several text files saved on the drive, and while I can open the file, I cannot save it after editing. It seems I can copy them over to my home file and use them though. While it's good i can copy the files off the drive to use them, it's a bit annoying.
I don't have another filemanager, but I'm interested in pcmanfm-git . I haven't installed it though, because there's not much info on it... would it help if I installed and tested with it?
Last edited by Japanlinux (2010-05-24 07:12:04)
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I don't have another filemanager, but I'm interested in pcmanfm-git . I haven't installed it though, because there's not much info on it... would it help if I installed and tested with it?
It might help, yes.
Anyway did you already check the permissions?
Please poste the output of ls -l of the related drive.
Last edited by orschiro (2010-05-24 07:33:41)
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Okay, I see something different. here is what it gave me for the drive:
dr-x------ 1 takemori root 4096 Mar 25 07:28 Games
dr-x------ 1 takemori root 12288 Feb 4 13:03 Discs
dr-x------ 1 takemori root 8192 Apr 29 07:58 Drivers, installer
-r-------- 1 takemori root 138122232 May 22 03:04 f5351591.avi
dr-x------ 1 takemori root 4096 Mar 20 08:51 MOVIES
dr-x------ 1 takemori root 4096 May 23 14:53 Pictures
dr-x------ 1 takemori root 4096 Oct 29 2009 ZipsAnd then I did the same for my home folder
drwx------ 5 takemori takemori 4096 May 24 16:42 Downloads
drwx------ 3 takemori takemori 4096 May 24 12:28 PicturesThe first one says Username Root. The 2nd is Username username
Could this be why I can access the drive, but not write to it?
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New development!!! I don't know when it happened, but now those permissions have transformed into Root Root, blocking me from the drive altogether... The only thing I've done since then is install Virtualbox_bin...
How can my system start changing things on it's own like that. Is there a way I can see past system changes in the terminal, to see how/when the permission was changed??
EDIT: I'm guessing that virtualbox install caused the issue... maybe when I installed the guest iso thing. Because I tried restarting and the drive went back to takemori root... so that was fixed. Back to the original problem though.
Last edited by Japanlinux (2010-05-24 10:14:59)
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So... judging from the lack of response, I'm guessing my problem isn't explained well enough? Or perhaps the problem isn't a problem at all, and simply a feature.... Guess I'll have to get used to the workaround o.O
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Installed the git version of Pcmanfm. I got the drive to show up, opened a test files, and tried to save over it, but it said "Can't open file to write"
That's the same thing Thunar tells me. I would like to say that maybe the drive is messed up, but it does the same to my usb drive as well. :shrug:
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As both filemanagers are working with hal I would take a look at the hal troubleshooting section.
Regards
Last edited by orschiro (2010-05-25 10:07:03)
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