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tried the following commands from the link to regain access rights of my userfolder

You can verify this with:

$ find ~/ -mount ! -user $(whoami)

You can correct this with:

$ sudo chown -R $(whoami):$(whoami) ~/

And I get the results:

username@username:~$ find ~/ -mount ! -user $(whoami)
find: "/home/username/.gvfs": Keine Berechtigung
/home/username/.gvfs
username@username:~$ sudo chown -R $(whoami):$(whoami) ~/
chown: der Eigentümer von '/home/username/.gvfs' wird geändert: Die angeforderte Funktion ist nicht implementiert

How can I resolve the issue?

Similar: Firefox only runs with `sudo`

Bogotrax
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  1. find ~/ -mount ! -user $(whoami) requires `sudo so ...

    sudo find ~/ -mount ! -user $(whoami)

  2. .gvfs needs to be owned by root so the notice is correct. The command though should not be run like that. Please follow the other answer https://askubuntu.com/a/876022/15811 if you only have problems with firefox.

Regarding 1:

$ find . -mount ! -user $USER
./.gvfs
find: `./.gvfs': Permission denied
./.config/enchant
find: `./.config/enchant': Permission denied
./.dbus
find: `./.dbus': Permission denied
./.cache/dconf
find: `./.cache/dconf': Permission denied

~$ sudo find . -mount ! -user $USER
./.gvfs
./.config/enchant
./.config/enchant/en_US.exc
./.config/enchant/en_US.dic
./.dbus
./.dbus/session-bus
./.dbus/session-bus/b9a307ab19d1c2845bf0bf9854f87478-0
./.cache/dconf

This is normal and should not be changed. If you see any other directories (and in your case that would be .mozilla you can change the owner and user with the 2nd command but I would then not do it on your home but the actual directory).

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  • Thank you for the quick answer! As I have problems with plenty of programs I would love to use the given solution in the right way. Is there a right way to do it similarly to the code in my initial post? – Bogotrax Feb 15 '17 at 14:56
  • do the 1st command. If the results are similar to my edit your problem is not permissions for your profile. For that you would need to see a result that includes ./mozilla since your profile is in there. – Rinzwind Feb 15 '17 at 14:59
  • Thanks, the result included ./mozilla and I resolved it using sudo chown -R $USER:$USER ~/.mozilla – Bogotrax Feb 15 '17 at 15:16
  • good! have an upvote ;) – Rinzwind Feb 15 '17 at 15:17