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What would be the command to allow a specific application to view other drives, like Clementine ?

I can't add content to my library from other drives.

Ubuntu 20.10 groovy (x86-64)

With Cinnamon 4.6.7

kernel: 5.8.0-43-generic

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  • I have my music stored on an internal drive in my PC which is mounted at boot time. Clementine can access the drive quite straightforwardly. What specific problem are you encountering? – graham Feb 11 '21 at 15:23
  • /media : Permission denied –  Feb 11 '21 at 15:25
  • It would have to be more than just /media but point to the mounted drive such as /media/graham/STORAGE/Music as in my case... /media/graham/STORAGE is the mount point, and music the directory where the files are stored on the mounted drive. /media on its own won't achieve much – graham Feb 11 '21 at 15:36
  • The mountpoint is: '/mnt/ca90892c-2780-4e09-bd51-289244ad86c6/Musique' Here is a link to a screenshot: link (It's the same for media and mnt) –  Feb 11 '21 at 15:42
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    Did you install Clementine as a snap version? Might be able to adjust permissions in software store, or install the .deb version. – crip659 Feb 11 '21 at 15:43
  • I can't access the other store from within Cinnamon. I had to download the deb package to intsall this version without loging of. It seems The only store available in Cinnamon environement is Snap. Thanks ! –  Feb 11 '21 at 15:44
  • Snaps are known to have trouble using other drives. Should be able to tell snap from deb in store. – crip659 Feb 11 '21 at 15:45
  • I donwloaded here: link I have both now and the deb one works fine ! link I'll uninstall the Snaps version –  Feb 11 '21 at 15:56
  • indeed, I can also see the other version in the Snap store, but know I also see the other icon, what wasn't the case in Gnome env. Link The Snap version has been uninstalled - Thanks again ! Cheers ! –  Feb 11 '21 at 16:02
  • Snaps are deliberately prohibited from looking outside your /home directory. That can be changed...if the snap packager opened that capability. If not, nothing you can do. – user535733 Feb 11 '21 at 18:27
  • Does this answer your question? How to get access to USB-storage from an application installed as Snap? – user535733 Nov 08 '22 at 22:34

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I've entered a terminal as root** sudo su then:

1. Purge the snap version installed of the clementine package:

snap remove clementine --purge

2. Use apt install instead :

apt install clementine

I've also seen this issue in other/later Ubuntu Flavors's releases using gnome-software as a base like it seems to me, that installing another one (like synaptic or snaps) could cause this. Maybe there's a general way to do so that the rights of installed package are set too for a freshly installed software manager.

By the way, I always use an Ubuntu flavors's releases as a base installation and never have trouble with gnome-software installed packages (mostly apt install with terminal). I did not use Snaps on my other tests.

After that Clementine could access all my disks like it should.

  • As a solution this might work too, though I haven't tested it yet because I replaced all my snap installs by apt. I'll try it if I need a new installation. - https://askubuntu.com/questions/1034030/how-to-get-access-to-usb-storage-from-an-application-installed-as-snap –  Nov 08 '22 at 22:44
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Just give the required permission

sudo snap connect clementine:removable-media
sudo snap connect clementine:desktop-legacy
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