After changing drive for $HOME can't run Teamviewer

Question

I wanted to changed the location of my $HOME directory from a 200 GB SSD to a 2 TB SATA. I did it according to the second answer found here. Now Teamviewer will not start any more. I if I try to start it by just clicking the icon, nothing happens. If I try it from the terminal by typing teamviewer I get following message:

Init...
XRandRWait: No value set. Using default.
XRandRWait: Started by user.
Checking setup...
wine: /home/adminuser/.local/share/teamviewer11 is not owned by you
wine: /home/adminuser/.local/share/teamviewer11 is not owned by you

Of course I checked if my account has permission to use teamviewer, and it does. Why was there no issue before, and now there is?

Have you tried sudo chown -R adminuser:adminuser /home/adminuser/.local/share/teamviewer11? — Jos, Aug 24 '16 at 08:28
yes I tried that already, I saw that goolging for some common wine issues. Sorry for not mentioning it. Also the owner is always root. I tried to change it to standard user, but it just automatically changes back to root. I read that wine has issues with root being the owner? — Vaxin, Aug 24 '16 at 08:30
I tried it with kill -HUP teamviewer but it fails: kill: failed to parse argument: 'teamviewer' — Vaxin, Aug 24 '16 at 08:33
sudo systemctl restart teamviewer on modern Ubuntus, or sudo service teamviewer restart should work. — Jos, Aug 24 '16 at 08:35
What filesystem the new drive formatted as (where you moved the home directory)? — steeldriver, Aug 24 '16 at 09:46
It is in ntfs format. I added UUID=7D7CEF726B6E2A2B /home ntfs defaults 0 2 to /etc/fstab — Vaxin, Aug 24 '16 at 09:51
Using an NTFS filesystem for your home directory is not recommended, for the exact reasons you are discovering (it doesn't properly handle Linux file ownerships/permissions). — steeldriver, Aug 24 '16 at 13:01

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 25 '16 at 09:08

steeldriver mentioned that Ubuntu does not run well on a NTSF formatted filesystem. So I backed up my hard drive, changed $HOME to the back up drive and formatted my drive to ext4. Then I copied everything back to my now ext4 formatted drive. It still did not work right away. Here is how it fixed it:

Uninstall teamviewer sudo apt-get remove teamviwer
Download and install the latest .deb file from teamviewer offical home page.
Still did not work. Now I changed ownership in the .config folder again:

sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /home/$USER/.config/teamviewer
Then in the .local/share/ folder:

sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /home/$USER/.local/share/teamviewer11

That did it for me. I changed ownership using chown several times but it did not work. Formatting my drive to ext4 and reinstalling teamviewer did it though.

Thank you guys.

After changing drive for $HOME can't run Teamviewer

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