Thunar behaves inconsistently with USB flash drive FAT32 partitions
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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glib2.0 (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
thunar (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I installed Xubuntu 14.04 and performed no customizations or reconfigurations.
Observation: Thunar 1.6.3 ("File Manager" from menu) on Xubuntu 14.04 handles write permission to inserted USB flash drives inconsistently:
* I am able to create a nil file on the flash drive with Thunar and edit it. Clearly, the flash drive is not read-only.
* Using Thunar, I cannot copy an existing file (E.g. ~/.profile) and paste it on the flash drive - "destination is read-only" (not true!).
* However, in a terminal window, `cp` with the flash drive as a destination succeeds.
I tried this on drives by different manufacturers and with differing capacities and on two different Xubuntu 14.04 installations.
There might be a configuration change for Thunar to allow paste to flash drives. If so, this should be enabled when Thunar is installed as this behaviour is what users expect.
Note: I created the FAT32 partition with `gparted` on Linux. I also got the same results after creating a FAT32 partition using an MACOSX system.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: thunar 1.6.3-1ubuntu5
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-29-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Fri Jun 20 11:30:40 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-06-19 (1 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140416.2)
SourcePackage: thunar
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
Changed in glib2.0 (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
Still an issue in Thunar 1.6.3 (Xfce 4.10) of Xubuntu 14.04.2.