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Sansa Clip plus has read-only permissions.

Asked by Bob Gillaspy

My Sansa Clip+ mp3 player will not let me copy files to it. When mounted in MSC mode, the response from a copy effort is that the disk is read-only. The result of a "ls -la" command is "drwx------". I have tried to use "chmod" to change permissions to 755 with no change in permissions. This was tried under the SUDO password.
I have tried using Rhythmbox when mounted in MTP mode, but no files are copied. The latest SANSA software is installed on the device.
I am able to use Windows to copy files. I would like to use Ubuntu.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#1

May be you have errors on the Sansa Clip plus filesystem.
Ubuntu if detect a filesystem with errors mount it in read only mode, windows not detect errors and give the read and write permissions on device with errors.

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Bob Gillaspy (rlg-iinet) said : 		#2

Marco --

Thanks for your quick response.
Can you tell me how to check the Sansa Clip plus filesystem for errors
and how to correct those errors?

Thanks, Bob

On Sun, 2010-08-01 at 18:04 +0000, marcobra (Marco Braida) wrote:

> Your question #119629 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/119629
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> marcobra (Marco Braida) proposed the following answer:
> May be you have errors on the Sansa Clip plus filesystem.
> Ubuntu if detect a filesystem with errors mount it in read only mode, windows not detect errors and give the read and write permissions on device with errors.
>

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#3

please manage your question not using mail but open the question link with your browser:

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/util-linux/+question/119629

Then please use windows and force a complete filesystem check on that device.

Please refer to win help on how to do it.

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Bob Gillaspy (rlg-iinet) said : 		#4

My apologies for using email. The auto-response containing your answer indicated that email response was acceptable.
Windows was unable to clean the file system. I reformatted the drive and now Ubuntu allows me to write music files to the device.
I am using MSC mode and copying files from a separate drive to the device.
Again, thanks for your help and quick response. This solves the problem I was having.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#5

in the future if you want format the device you can also install and use gparted package in Ubuntu...