Unable to open files on mounted drives

[Christoph Cullmann]

On 2020-06-24 08:30, Olga Baranov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have issues opening certain files in Kate on Ubuntu even though my
> user should have write and read permissions. The message reads 'The
> file xxx can not be opened, because it is not readable'.  The rights
> for the file look like this:
> 
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 oxxx oxxx 3388 Jun 22 14:47 
> /media/oxxx/ssss/aaaa/aaaa/ssss/log
> 
> The drive looks like so in /dev:
> 
> brw-rw----  1 root disk      8,  19 Jun 24 08:19 sdb3
> 
> and in /media/oxxx/:
> 
> drwxrwxrwx 1 oxxx oxxx 126976 Jun 22 17:09 ssss
> 
> Any help is appreciated! Also, please CC me for the response :)

Hi,

just to be sure, can you e.g. do

less /media/oxxx/ssss/aaaa/aaaa/ssss/log

in a terminal on that file?

Actually, beside just trying to open the file, I am not sure we do that
many other checks if we can read it.

Greetings
Christoph

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