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Can't access to files on my second hard drive
Hi,
I installed Ubuntu 20.04 yesterday. I have two HD in my laptop:
- SSD for / and /home
- HDD for /data
- symbolic links to Images, Videos and Music in my home folder that point to folders in /data
I installed Gimp via de Ubuntu Software center.
Gimp is unable to open any file that is on my HDD:
I granted all imaginable permissions to Gimp:
But nothing, can't access to the files that are on the HDD.
On the other hand, Telegram, installed via snap also, can access to those files:
same problem here. its not even a different hard drive but just a different partition ( /data for my big files ) on the same disk. every other application, can access those files, oly gimp cant. everytime i want to use gimp; I have to move my files in my home folder . . . so i started to use another image editor :-1: surprised to see such a huge bug is unanswered since may . . .
well since this snap seems to be mostly unmaintained, I finally decided to uninstall the gimp snap, and ended up removing all the snaps and disabling snap completely , then added the good old ppa. gimp is now working like a charm, and my computer is 2x faster.
well since this snap seems to be mostly unmaintained, I finally decided to uninstall the gimp snap, and ended up removing all the snaps and disabling snap completely , then added the good old ppa. gimp is now working like a charm, and my computer is 2x faster.
How did you completely disable snap ?
The removable-media interface does not permit access to /data. You need to mount your partition/drive in a location permitted by either the home interface or the removable-media interface.
Snap app's have no access to ⋅ the root / system partition, except /media, /mnt, /run/media granted removable-media interface has been connected. ⋅ hidden files and folders ( those whose names begin with a . dot ) unless you mount folders using bind option.
Now @diddledan it seems in @lalejand 's case some snap have access to his data ( telegram ) and some other don't ( gimp ). So what can be the problem here ? Rights and permissions on the data ? Are these data stored on a non-linux partition ? Do these symlinks have hidden files/folders in their target path ?
Same issue here - among the different snap-ed apps (blender, krita, gimp), only gimp has no access to /mnt/.
@diddledan the mount is managed via /etc/fstab.... but in the end, after a quick check, there's a ppa with a newer version. Also, seeing the snap didn't move for a long time (and this bug open for about a year now), I've moved away and took the ppa.