Public bug reported:
After installing the latest Ubuntu MATE 14.10 and rebooting my system,
one of my external USB 3 drives with NTFS became unusable. I got
permission errors when I tried to update the drive. When I used Caja to
check the permissions they had been changed from robert to root. I
opened Caja as administrator and opened the properties window and
selected the permissions tab. When I try to change the owner to robert
in the dropdown list, Caja immediately changes it back to root. The
other drive screwed up is Shared which is a partition on my first hard
drive also with an NTFS.
I noticed that when I open the menu on the drive, the "Paste into
folder" entry flickers from normal to grayed out.
One good thing is that Caja in the left panel under Devices, the volume
names appear instead of just the volume size. Thank you for fixing that
bug.
Please tell me how to use the command line to change the owner of the
directories on my external drive. How do I find the owner numbers so I can use
the chown command.
I tried cd "/media/robert/4TB Seagate 3" followed by sudo chown robert Garbage
and sudo chown robert Users. But afterwards the permissions are still
unchanged. It does not even ask me for the sudo password.
The drives NOT screwed up are '4TB g-drive' with NTFS, '4TB LaCie' with
NTFS, '4TB Seagate 1' with NTFS, '5TB Seagate 1' with ext4, and '8TB
Seagate 1' with ext4.
This bug only started after the last update of Ubuntu. How can I restore
my system to a useful state after your last update?
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10
Package: caja 1.20.2-5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-16.17-generic 4.18.20
Uname: Linux 4.18.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu13.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: MATE
Date: Mon Mar 25 18:54:45 2019
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-12-16 (99 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-MATE 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish" - Release amd64
(20181017.2)
SourcePackage: caja
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: caja (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug cosmic
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