gns3-server user rights issues - v2.2.50

[Kizan]

OS: Ubuntu 24.04.1 (upgrade and fresh install) GNS3 version: 2.2.50 Local GNS3 server

Attempt 1: Ran upgrade from 2.2.49 to 2.2.50, discovered GNS3 server application is now running as new user "gns3-server". It has no rights in the /home//GNS3 folder and can't read/write there. Was able to add gns3-server user to local users group and that allowed gns3 to create new projects [sudo usermod -aG $(whoami) gns3-server ]. However, this still didn't allow it to open old projects. All custom templates are missing (no surprise) and am unable to use the standard templates. I tried to pull out a NAT object and get this error.

"Error while creating node from template: uBridge is not available, path doesn't exist, or you just installed GNS3 and need to restart your user session to refresh user permissions."

Restarting app does not help, nor does restarting the OS.

Attempt 2: Fresh Ubuntu 24.04.1 (newest updates) installed and then installed GNS3 v2.2.50. New install has the gns3-server user issues mentioned above. In addition, the fresh install does not create the /home//GNS3 folder.