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Everything was fine until I upgraded from 21.10 to 22.04. Now, whenever I try to download something in any browser (Brave, Vivaldi, Firefox, etc), I can only download it to my home folder or any folder inside the system drive (I use a separate SSD for Ubuntu). I use my data HDD on auto-mount so i'ts always mounted & I have no problem reading/writing from it (I can open Rhythmbox and play music from there, wget files into it via Terminal, copy, paste & delete), but I can't 'Save As' on my browsers, it asks me if I want to save but files won't download, show up in the HDD or even in the browsers download list. Already checked permissions & apps have permission. Does anybody know how to solve this or even what's causing it?

unimatrix2
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  • Does wget work? Like, take a file you want to download, even a PDF or something, cd to a non-working location, and try to download it with wget. Also remember to put a single quote at the beginning and end of the URL – cocomac May 05 '22 at 03:51
  • are your browsers installed with snap or apt? If snap, do they have access to your media outside your home - check the interfaces? https://askubuntu.com/questions/1228899/how-to-access-files-outside-of-home-in-snap-apps – kurja May 05 '22 at 05:03
  • @cocomac Yes, wget works everywhere, with everything (images, videos, pdfs, etc) – unimatrix2 May 05 '22 at 05:15
  • @kurja I have both. Brave and Firefox are snaps while Vivaldi and Chrome are both apt. Same behavior on all of them ;-; [UPDATE] just checked the interfaces, no problem there :/ – unimatrix2 May 05 '22 at 05:15
  • Try installing firefox as a .deb, and report if the issue still persists. https://askubuntu.com/questions/1399383/how-to-install-firefox-as-a-traditional-deb-package-without-snap-in-ubuntu-22/1404401#1404401 – Archisman Panigrahi May 05 '22 at 05:32

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I'm using deb packaged firefox and chrome and I could not save files outside of the home directories.

My problem is with bookmarks on the gnome Files app. I removed all of the bookmarks and added them again. I can then save files to the bookmarked locations.

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  • Thanks! I had some bookmarks so I did this and it worked! – unimatrix2 May 05 '22 at 13:15
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    Unfortunately, deleting and re-adding my bookmarks in Nautilus did not resolve the problem here. I just upgraded from 21.10 to 22.04, and now Chrome (deb), Thunderbird (snap), and FireFox (snap) will not open nor save to any network drives (a home Ubuntu server); all of these apps read/saved to the same server before the upgrade this afternoon. – asavage May 07 '22 at 15:37
  • @asavage I haven't tried network disks yet, only local downloads. Will test it and comment again here – unimatrix2 May 09 '22 at 14:07
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    https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1767316 – asavage May 09 '22 at 17:34
  • i don't even get a prompt asking me where I want to save anything, the browser just hangs – Michael Jun 11 '22 at 23:12
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I struggled with this for quite some time and it turned out to be the apparmor service. Running systemctl stop apparmor fixed the problem temporarily. You might want to run systemctl disable apparmor for the setting to persist across reboots.

Note that AppArmor is a Mandatory Access Control (MAC) system which is a kernel (LSM) enhancement to confine programs to a limited set of resources. If one has security concerns, turning off this service may not be the best solution.

YMMV.

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I have the same problem, 22.04 here.. but now i'm using "Chromium" temporarily. It works fine! Check it out.

cnfs
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  • I have the same problem and I noticed that several "questions" have been written on this. Some have said it is an intentional change related to security. For now, I've resigned myself to saving to some location under my home directory and then manually moving the file afterwards. – user1951615 Jun 15 '22 at 12:09