I'm on 17.04 fully updated as at 30/5/2017. This is still happening. As per everything the OP had in 2012, I can confirm the same at this end.
No remounting or editing of permissions changed nautilus' permissions for me except for: * Closing nautilus, * Removing ~/.config/nautilus, *1 * logging out and back in again (for good measure—not a reboot) and * restarting nautilus worked for me *1 May not have been required, but done because I was working through several posts and it was one of the suggested solutions -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1021375 Title: Nautilus says the USB stick is read only when it is not To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nautilus/+bug/1021375/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
