Ubuntu

WD Passport External HD Read-Only Permissions

Bug #591025 reported by Micah Cavaleri
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Bug Description

I have a 300 GB WD Passport External HD, which always worked correctly until I upgraded to 10.04. Now I cannot save or edit documents from my HD and I cannot change the permissions. Please help. Nothing I have looked at online has helped thus far.

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Micah Cavaleri (cavalerima) wrote :

More developments:

I don't know what was in the latest sets of updates, but not only did I lose the ability to make use of my external HD, but after discovering that problem, I restarted my computer and I was not able to get my desktop up. Instead I got the message "Could not update ICEauthority file /home/me/.ICEauthority". Nothing recommended on the boards was successful. Finally, I tried to reinstall Nautilus. That was unsuccessful and I was forced to reinstall 10.04, which did not install correctly and I could not get my mouse to work. Finally rolled everything back and installed 9.04. 10.04 is useless. Everything has fallen apart since I got it.

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Micah Cavaleri (cavalerima) wrote :

One more update:

Turns out rolling back to 9.04 doesn't help. Same problem with external HD. Attempted fix led to same corruption, had to reinstall yet again. Seriously considering abandoning Ubuntu since it seems to have someone dropping some seriously screwed updates.

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Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi) wrote :

Hello
Is this problem present with the latest updates ?
Thanks in advance
Fabio

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status: New → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for Ubuntu because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in ubuntu:
status: Incomplete → Expired
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Bert Van de Poel (bhack) wrote :

The cause of this problem is very simple: sometimes the ownership of a USB disk is not transfered to the group "plugdev", this needs to be fixed as users do not know how to change permissions.
Personally I think that on non-boot USB devices the default behavior should be that they're rw for the group plugdev.

Changed in ubuntu:
status: Expired → Incomplete
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
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