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I am on the latest Ubuntu. I noticed a few weeks ago that whenever I tried to download anything via Firefox it would fail. I have just noticed in my file manager that Documents, Videos, Music, downloads, etc are all owned by me, but read only. I have tried chmod -R o-rwx and opening Nautilus in a terminal with sudo and tried changing there too and those do not work either. I just can not change them.

Any ideas, PLEASE?

Linux BaroniPC 5.15.0-40-generic #43-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jun 15 12:54:21 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

fstab changes made a few years ago:

#/windows was on /dev/sda2 during installation

#UUID=7EFBAA7D470A78F5 /windows ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_GB.UTF-8 0 0 #vfat utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1

#Downloads /dev/sdc1

UUID=29DD5A1F6EE94DBF /home/baroni/Downloads ntfs auto,users,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=027,fmask=137 0 0

#Documents sdc3

UUID=581D33AA242769BA /home/baroni/Documents ntfs auto,users,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=027,fmask=137 0 0

#Videos sdc2

UUID=7D26D47D2C4B9A2C /home/baroni/Videos ntfs auto,users,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=027,fmask=137 0 0

#Pictures sdc5

UUID=61E6CEB00317BB99 /home/baroni/Pictures ntfs auto,users,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=027,fmask=137 0 0

#Music sdc6

UUID=732D95F04D5A444B /home/baroni/Music ntfs auto,users,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=027,fmask=137 0 0

#Ext_Documents Backups dev/sdd1

UUID=61000e07-7c55-4d0f-a233-c350229485ae /media/Backup ext4 defaults 0 0

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  • please [edit] your question with the exact version of Ubuntu and include what, if any, changes you have made to the system – graham Jul 13 '22 at 14:16
  • Is it a dual-boot system? If so, try to boot to windows, then close it completely and restart in Ubuntu. – Marc Vanhoomissen Jul 13 '22 at 14:36
  • No, not dual boot. It was, but no Windows at the moment, just the partition. – Jonners59 Jul 13 '22 at 14:38
  • Firefox is a snap install? chmod -R o-rwx what is that supposed to do on an NTFS mount? Make sure you mount the ntfs as writable and make sure ntfs partiyions are not dirty and in need of a checkdisk from within windows. – Rinzwind Jul 13 '22 at 14:51
  • Windows updates may turn fast startup back on setting hibernation flag. Then the Linux NTFS driver will only allow read only mount, so typical auto mounts that are read/write do not work. That is to prevent damage to hibernation or loss of data. Check Windows settings. More info: https://askubuntu.com/questions/843153/unable-to-mount-windows-10-partition-it-is-in-an-unsafe-state & https://askubuntu.com/questions/145902/unable-to-mount-windows-ntfs-filesystem-due-to-hibernation – oldfred Jul 13 '22 at 16:38
  • Dear all. Sorry for the radio silence. I'll have access to my PC Sunday and Monday and will take a further look then. As for Windows. Not the issue. There was a Windows install, hence the entry, but that has gone since I had to rebuild some time ago and haven't had a chance to reinstall. This all started after latest update. I have read that Ubuntu have been changing user permissions on Home recently and think this may be the issue. Seems loads are having problems. Not seen a solution yet. – Jonners59 Jul 16 '22 at 20:24
  • OK, so still not getting anywhere. – Jonners59 Jul 18 '22 at 11:43
  • OK, so still not getting anywhere. The "chmod -R o-rwx" is because I read that Ubuntu changed the security of HOME to prevent multiple profiles from being able to access each other's documents, etc. This is no issue for me as I am the only user, and besides this policy makes the machine almost unusable. It makes no difference how I look and try to change Directory access: If I look at properties in the Bookmarks then it is root for Documents, Music, and Pictures. Download and Videos it's me. And Download it says owner can access and create, Videos access only. The others it's root only. – Jonners59 Jul 18 '22 at 13:03
  • If I sudo Nautilus, then I still can not change ownership nor access rights. CLearly the fstab is wrong, the differences between the settings shown, but that still makes no difference as in any case I have no read/write access in any cases. – Jonners59 Jul 18 '22 at 13:05

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