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MystKid

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Registered: 2011-01-24

Posts: 55

No Write Permissions on external USB Drives

hello guys i have been trying to mount 3 ntfs drives with dolphin and i cannot copy files into them. it says no write permissions. i have installed ntfs-3g

JMO

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From: Argentina

Registered: 2006-04-08

Posts: 98

Re: No Write Permissions on external USB Drives

Have you took a look at the wiki page for NTFS-3G?

It's short and well explained.-

hcjl

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From: berlin

Registered: 2007-06-29

Posts: 330

Re: No Write Permissions on external USB Drives

add your user to the storage group.

MystKid

Member

Registered: 2011-01-24

Posts: 55

Re: No Write Permissions on external USB Drives

i have installed ntfs-3g with dolphin i can mount but only read and not write permission

rzepaczyk

Member

Registered: 2010-12-23

Posts: 74

Re: No Write Permissions on external USB Drives

have you tried to add your user to storage group as hcjl said?

xbolg

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Registered: 2017-10-07

Posts: 1

Re: No Write Permissions on external USB Drives

Just add your user to the storage group: # gpasswd -a user_name storage

WorMzy

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From: Scotland

Registered: 2010-06-16

Posts: 13,674

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Re: No Write Permissions on external USB Drives

Please do not necrobump.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … bumping.22

Closing.

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