How to sort out permission problem on mounted partitions?

Asked Jun 22 '20 at 11:31

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I have just installed a citation manager Zotero using snap. I added one of AddOns called Zotfile to locally manage PDFs instead of storing them on a cloud. I configured Ubuntu such that my Documents are on mounted partition. I also use LVM.

Within Zotero, when I try to configure the AddOn Zotfile and point at one of the folders on a mounted partition, I get permission error. When I use any local folder on the same partition, everything's OK. How can I solve the problem? I am confused because Zotero is installed by root and has root:root permissions.

asked Jun 22 '20 at 11:31

Celdor

Does this answer your question? How to get access to USB-storage from the application installed as Snap? - the snap connect zotero-snap:removable-media will do the trick. – N0rbert Jun 22 '20 at 12:43
Thank you. It did help me to solve the problem. – Celdor Jun 22 '20 at 13:49
I have one more question. Zotero is a PDF manager. I realised I cannot attach PDFs to references. Does it need another interface connection enabled? I am so confused about all that snap applications :/ – Celdor Jun 22 '20 at 15:09
I'm not really sure. I do not use Snap'ed version of Zotero. On ordinary version I use "Attach Stored Copy of File…" without problems. – N0rbert Jun 22 '20 at 16:24
It’s working now. I had to reinstall Zotero and also remove then add a group which I wanted to import papers to. – Celdor Jun 23 '20 at 03:02

How to sort out permission problem on mounted partitions?

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