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I just installed 18.04, it marked one of my hard drives as read only, how to fix?

Asked by AraiBob

I installed 18.04 yesterday, and one of the oddities is a hard drive is suddenly requiring my password for anything I try to do. VLC won't show a video. File manipulations required my password...

The settings allow 'Me' to see the files, but 'Root' is the setting for the group. I have tried to fix it using the panels, but so far, no joy.

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#1

For diagnostic purposes please provide the output that you receive for the commands

uname -a
lsb_release -crid
sudo fdisk -l
mount

Which one (in this output) is the disk in question?

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AraiBob (rhhyatt) said : 		#2

Hello, I have tried a few things. Including having the file system mark every file on the drive as "Me", "Bob" which is the group I belong to. The first attempt failed / aborted. The second attempt appears to have worked, but not completely.

I have four 10-Terabyte WD Gold hard drives, and 3 ssd. One SSD has the O S on it. The other two are used for downloading to and for file conversions.
The 'first' WD Gold drive is the one that was marked as "Root" group. Any attempt to access it got a failure. Most applications, like VLC failed, noting it could not look at the device. Please note, I was looking at the video file in the file manager, clicked on it, and it failed.

Please note I have been using Ubuntu since 2010... And 18.04 LTS has caused me one kind of issue or another. I went back to 16.04 and I am hopeful this version of 18;.04 will work.

uname -a
Linux Bob-Fortress2 4.15.0-39-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 23 15:48:01 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

lsb_release -crid
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS
Release: 18.04
Codename: bionic

sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for bob:
Disk /dev/loop0: 14.5 MiB, 15208448 bytes, 29704 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/loop1: 138.3 MiB, 145055744 bytes, 283312 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/loop2: 140.7 MiB, 147496960 bytes, 288080 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/loop3: 34.2 MiB, 35827712 bytes, 69976 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/loop4: 13 MiB, 13619200 bytes, 26600 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/loop5: 34.7 MiB, 36323328 bytes, 70944 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/loop6: 2.3 MiB, 2433024 bytes, 4752 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/loop7: 3.7 MiB, 3878912 bytes, 7576 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/sda: 238.5 GiB, 256060514304 bytes, 500118192 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: FAFED2EE-D012-4C09-AE4E-5EA9AA9DDDC6

Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sda1 2048 1050623 1048576 512M EFI System
/dev/sda2 1050624 500117503 499066880 238G Linux filesystem

Disk /dev/sdb: 953.9 GiB, 1024209543168 bytes, 2000409264 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: AF942B12-7395-4AA1-A79F-3DEECCB4E043

Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sdb1 2048 1953425407 1953423360 931.5G Linux filesystem
/dev/sdb2 1953425408 1953523711 98304 48M Linux swap

Disk /dev/sdc: 9.1 TiB, 10000831348736 bytes, 19532873728 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 7CB4113E-D0E1-4FCB-93E3-22FBB79794A5

Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sdc1 2048 19532871679 19532869632 9.1T Linux filesystem

Disk /dev/sdd: 9.1 TiB, 10000831348736 bytes, 19532873728 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 48D9E12D-F7B3-4C5E-B565-1C6A7A5A87EA

Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sdd1 2048 19532871679 19532869632 9.1T Linux filesystem

Disk /dev/sde: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: A3C10514-8DA7-4DD0-82DE-508FD388708C

Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sde1 2048 1953523711 1953521664 931.5G Linux filesystem

Disk /dev/sdf: 9.1 TiB, 10000831348736 bytes, 19532873728 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 61DBA2D9-F64E-430C-A19A-E728450917CA

Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sdf1 2048 19532871679 19532869632 9.1T Linux filesystem

Disk /dev/sdg: 9.1 TiB, 10000831348736 bytes, 19532873728 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 05324036-7557-48DB-9642-01B0374B56B8

Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sdg1 2048 19532871679 19532869632 9.1T Linux filesystem

Disk /dev/loop8: 13 MiB, 13619200 bytes, 26600 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/loop9: 87.9 MiB, 92114944 bytes, 179912 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/loop10: 399.7 MiB, 419082240 bytes, 818520 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/loop11: 14.5 MiB, 15196160 bytes, 29680 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/loop12: 140.9 MiB, 147722240 bytes, 288520 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/loop13: 86.9 MiB, 91099136 bytes, 177928 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/loop14: 94 MiB, 98500608 bytes, 192384 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/loop15: 2.3 MiB, 2355200 bytes, 4600 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/loop16: 3.7 MiB, 3887104 bytes, 7592 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/loop17: 195.2 MiB, 204644352 bytes, 399696 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

mount
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=8170500k,nr_inodes=2042625,mode=755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,size=1640152k,mode=755)
/dev/sda2 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
tmpfs on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=5120k)
tmpfs on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=755)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/unified type cgroup2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,nsdelegate)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,xattr,name=systemd)
pstore on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
efivarfs on /sys/firmware/efi/efivars type efivarfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpu,cpuacct)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/pids type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,pids)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/devices type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,devices)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/perf_event type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,perf_event)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/memory type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,memory)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/hugetlb type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,hugetlb)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuset)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/rdma type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,rdma)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls,net_prio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,net_cls,net_prio)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,freezer)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,blkio)
mqueue on /dev/mqueue type mqueue (rw,relatime)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,relatime)
hugetlbfs on /dev/hugepages type hugetlbfs (rw,relatime,pagesize=2M)
systemd-1 on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=41,pgrp=1,timeout=0,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct,pipe_ino=469)
configfs on /sys/kernel/config type configfs (rw,relatime)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,relatime)
/dev/sda1 on /boot/efi type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0077,dmask=0077,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro)
/var/lib/snapd/snaps/gnome-logs_45.snap on /snap/gnome-logs/45 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide)
/var/lib/snapd/snaps/thunderbird_29.snap on /snap/thunderbird/29 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide)
/var/lib/snapd/snaps/gnome-3-26-1604_74.snap on /snap/gnome-3-26-1604/74 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide)
/var/lib/snapd/snaps/gtk-common-themes_319.snap on /snap/gtk-common-themes/319 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide)
/var/lib/snapd/snaps/gnome-calculator_180.snap on /snap/gnome-calculator/180 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide)
/var/lib/snapd/snaps/gnome-system-monitor_57.snap on /snap/gnome-system-monitor/57 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide)
/var/lib/snapd/snaps/gtk-common-themes_808.snap on /snap/gtk-common-themes/808 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide)
/var/lib/snapd/snaps/gnome-characters_139.snap on /snap/gnome-characters/139 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide)
/var/lib/snapd/snaps/gnome-characters_103.snap on /snap/gnome-characters/103 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide)
/var/lib/snapd/snaps/wine-platform_29.snap on /snap/wine-platform/29 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide)
/var/lib/snapd/snaps/core_5742.snap on /snap/core/5742 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide)
/var/lib/snapd/snaps/gnome-logs_37.snap on /snap/gnome-logs/37 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide)
/var/lib/snapd/snaps/gnome-3-26-1604_70.snap on /snap/gnome-3-26-1604/70 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide)
/var/lib/snapd/snaps/core_4917.snap on /snap/core/4917 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide)
/var/lib/snapd/snaps/bcompare_90.snap on /snap/bcompare/90 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide)
/var/lib/snapd/snaps/gnome-calculator_260.snap on /snap/gnome-calculator/260 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide)
/var/lib/snapd/snaps/gnome-system-monitor_51.snap on /snap/gnome-system-monitor/51 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide)
/var/lib/snapd/snaps/vlc_555.snap on /snap/vlc/555 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide)
tmpfs on /run/user/1000 type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=1640148k,mode=700,uid=1000,gid=1000)
gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=1000)
/dev/sdb1 on /media/bob/quick type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,data=ordered,uhelper=udisks2)
/dev/sdc1 on /media/bob/Dawl type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,data=ordered,uhelper=udisks2)
/dev/sdf1 on /media/bob/Emma type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,data=ordered,uhelper=udisks2)
tmpfs on /run/snapd/ns type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,size=1640152k,mode=755)
nsfs on /run/snapd/ns/vlc.mnt type nsfs (rw)
nsfs on /run/snapd/ns/gnome-system-monitor.mnt type nsfs (rw)

As you can see, there is a lot of trash on my OS Drive...

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#3

I do not see any indication that one of the hard drives would be read-only.
What I now assume is that the file ownership on one of the drives is wrong.

Which ownership and access rights settings do you see in the output of

ls -l /media/bob/
ls -l /media/bob/Dawl
ls -l /media/bob/Emma

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AraiBob (rhhyatt) said : 		#4

ls -l /media/bob/
total 16
drwxrwxr-x 20 bob bob 4096 Nov 15 17:54 Dawl
drwx------ 40 bob bob 4096 Nov 7 02:30 Emma
drwx------ 8 bob bob 4096 Oct 31 13:30 GFun
drwx------ 9 bob bob 4096 Nov 15 18:50 quick

ls -l /media/bob/Dawl
total 176
-rw-rw-r-- 1 bob bob 10382 Nov 5 2015 'applications list trusty.txt'
-rw-rw-r-- 1 bob bob 9893 Feb 8 2016 'applications list.txt'
-rw-rw-r-- 1 bob bob 11640 Sep 11 14:48 'applications list xenial.txt'
drwxrwxr-x 9 bob bob 4096 Jul 19 18:11 BobPics
drwxrwxr-x 12 bob bob 4096 Dec 22 2017 Celebs
drwxrwxr-x 3 bob bob 4096 Oct 19 13:44 Disaster
drwxrwxr-x 14 bob bob 4096 Nov 15 17:54 dl
drwxrwxr-x 9 bob bob 4096 Oct 11 18:43 docs
-rw-rw-r-- 1 bob bob 1407 Dec 4 2014 'Freefilesync install.txt'
-rw-rw-r-- 1 bob bob 5098 Sep 21 2015 install_ubuntu.sh
drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 16384 Jun 22 2017 lost+found
drwxrwxr-x 16 bob bob 4096 Nov 16 11:19 NewAdult
drwxrwxr-x 33 bob bob 12288 Oct 1 10:24 newMovs
-rw-rw-r-- 1 bob bob 257 Apr 14 2013 PhilComID.txt
drwxrwxr-x 8 bob bob 4096 Sep 21 14:15 SciFi1
drwxrwxr-x 7 bob bob 4096 May 30 09:34 SciFi2
drwxrwxr-x 7 bob bob 4096 Oct 16 16:08 SciFi3
drwxrwxr-x 7 bob bob 4096 Sep 29 21:11 SciFi4
drwxrwxr-x 11 bob bob 4096 Nov 16 13:51 SciFi-New
drwxrwxr-x 4 bob bob 4096 Mar 3 2017 Tagalog
drwxrwxr-x 33 bob bob 4096 Nov 2 10:17 TV-Shows
-rw-rw-r-- 1 bob bob 31232 Aug 25 14:34 'video issue with ubuntu.doc'
-rw-rw-r-- 1 bob bob 230 Aug 31 15:23 'Wine Install.txt'
drwxrwxr-x 4 bob bob 4096 Nov 16 09:07 zz
drwxrwxr-x 2 bob bob 4096 Jul 26 2016 zz-MakeMkv

ls -l /media/bob/Emma
total 4252
drwxrwxr-x 179 bob bob 20480 Oct 15 13:10 0_OtherMovs
drwxrwxr-x 2 bob bob 4096 Feb 6 2017 1990s
-rwxr----- 1 bob bob 2837486 Jul 6 2015 '2015-07-06 04.45.48.jpg'
drwxr-xr-x 45 bob bob 4096 Aug 20 17:16 aa-Music
-rw-rw-r-- 1 bob bob 85128 Dec 13 2015 "a The Lord's Prayer.jpg"
drwxrwxr-x 21 bob bob 4096 Nov 1 12:29 'Blues - New'
drwxrwxr-x 9 bob bob 4096 Jan 7 2018 Cajun
drwxrwxr-x 34 bob bob 4096 Aug 10 08:05 Chill
drwxrwxr-x 11 bob bob 4096 Nov 1 14:58 classical
drwxrwxr-x 10 bob bob 4096 Nov 14 17:32 Country
drwxrwxr-x 2 bob bob 4096 Jul 13 06:55 'Doctor Who 2005 S11'
drwxrwxr-x 18 bob bob 4096 Mar 20 2018 edu
drwxrwxr-x 4 bob bob 20480 Sep 9 11:15 'Graham Hancock'
-rw-rw-r-- 1 bob bob 22120 Jun 25 2017 'I do NOT consent to these proceedings.jpg'
-rw-rw-r-- 1 bob bob 569719 Jan 24 2016 'Lord, I ask you to protect my kids.png'
-rw-rw-r-- 1 bob bob 368593 Feb 13 2016 "Lord's prayer.png"
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Jun 21 2017 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 7 bob bob 4096 Aug 21 15:14 'Merlin TV'
drwx------ 40 bob bob 4096 Feb 24 2018 Music-Lounge
drwxrwxr-x 22 bob bob 4096 Nov 7 02:59 Music-New
drwxrwxr-x 9 bob bob 4096 May 1 2018 Music-Pop-a
drwxrwxr-x 6 bob bob 4096 Jun 21 2017 Music-Pop-d
drwxrwxr-x 6 bob bob 4096 Sep 20 2016 Music-Pop-h
drwxrwxr-x 19 bob bob 4096 Feb 18 2018 Music-Pop-k
drwxrwxr-x 11 bob bob 4096 Mar 26 2018 Music-Pop-p
drwxrwxr-x 10 bob bob 4096 Aug 13 2016 Music-Pop-t
drwxrwxr-x 25 bob bob 4096 Oct 9 17:11 Music-Pop-zz
drwxrwxr-x 80 bob bob 4096 Nov 1 09:32 new
drwxrwxr-x 19 bob bob 4096 Jul 16 09:36 NewHome
drwxrwxr-x 5 bob bob 4096 Oct 7 2017 newnewnew
drwxrwxr-x 39 bob bob 4096 Oct 10 2017 newPics
drwxrwxr-x 21 bob bob 4096 Apr 22 2018 N-Music
drwxrwxr-x 5 bob bob 4096 May 9 2018 oldies
drwxrwxr-x 32 bob bob 258048 Aug 15 17:33 posters
drwxrwxr-x 26 bob bob 4096 Feb 19 2018 Reggae
drwxr-xr-x 4 bob bob 4096 Aug 19 11:37 'Romantic New'
drwxrwxr-x 2 bob bob 12288 May 16 2018 Sinulog
-rw-rw-r-- 1 bob bob 95 Jul 9 2017 'steemit account.txt'
drwxrwxr-x 3 bob bob 4096 Aug 10 2013 'WebSite Banner'
drwxrwxr-x 2 bob bob 4096 Oct 10 11:49 WesternsNew
drwxr-xr-x 2 999 root 4096 Aug 25 08:07 wwww
drwxrwxr-x 3 bob bob 4096 Nov 7 09:51 'Xmas Music'
drwxrwxr-x 2 bob bob 4096 Oct 7 11:04 zzz

Dawl is the drive that is not quite the way it should be. As I noted, I attempted to change every file using the panel for such things. It ran a long time.
The other three 10TB drives don't have an issue...

Thank you for your efforts.
 ps. I use a file compare utility to check what I have on my drives, against USB drives. And what is different is moved. When I tried it, earlier, it would not let me see any of the drives. This was my first try to use Beyond Compare. The O S saw both the drive (Dawl) and the USB drive. but Beyond Compare would not show me any of the drives. I could not 'direct it' to the directories I wanted to compare.

I have another tool I use for this purpose, for years. Vice Versa. The problem is I have to install Wine, to install and run it. When I tried to do this install of Wine, it failed... Annoying.

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#5

Do you still see the drive as being marked read-only or has changing the ownership helped?

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AraiBob (rhhyatt) said : 		#6

Ok, I am awake, for the new day. I decided to check the other drives.

Me - read and write
Bob - none

The group id of Bob had no access. And I suspect the software I want to use, runs not as 'Me', but under the group id of 'Bob'. So I have begun the efforts to fix this, and as you might imagine, the function / panel for this purpose gives me no feedback. Thousands of files, seem to be changed in an instance.

So, now, I am having to start the process and leave it up. I have no way to know for how long. another poorly done feature / utility.

I hope this fixes my problems. I don't recall having so many issues, the last time I installed (not an upgrade, an install) of 18.04. And when I went back to 16.04, there was NOT a single problem like this. very annoying.

So much for progress...

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AraiBob (rhhyatt) said : 		#7

One more oddity... In the past, when I looked at a directory of videos, the graphic related to the video would have a 'picture' from within the video file. No more. What see, instead, is an orange colored 'film strip'. Not the 'preview' that has been the norm for so many years...

Is this another indicator of an access problem? If so, how to fix?

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AraiBob (rhhyatt) said : 		#8

One more mystery. The 1TB ssd I use for my torrent downloads, is called 'quick'.
And it used to be mounted under /media/Bob/quick

Not today. It is now mounted under /mnt/02ceb32c-ab17-4d49-9454-51960adf29ce

And I cannot figure how that happened, nor how to fix it...

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#9

Who is "Me" ?
What is the output of the commands

whoami
groups
id

Is it /media/bob/ or /media/Bob/ ?
Linux systems are case sensitive!

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#10

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