Comment 118 for bug 1021375

@h23 if you are seeing the same behaviour in the terminal the Nautilus is
not the problem. Your USB is write protected or your computer is picking it
up like that for some reason.

You can insert the USB Stick and then run:

dmesg | tail

To see the system log. There you can see if the write protection is turned
on. If you see something like `Write Protect is off`then you should be
okay, otherwise the USB Stick is protected.

On Tue, 25 Jun 2019 at 09:35, li <email address hidden> wrote:

> I see that many people say that killall nautilus works for them but it
> doesn't change anything for me. Perhaps someone could spell out the
> exact sequence of actions so that I can make sure that I am the problem?
>
> What I am doing right now is
> insert USB
> try to paste something into it using nautilus (same with using terminal
> though), see that it's read only.
> run killall nautilus in terminal.
> (restart or not, I've tried both)
> nautilus window disappears.
> I try to copy something onto the USB again using Nautilus
> still doesn't work.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
> I am working on 16.04.6 LTS
>
> Thanks!
>
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> Nautilus says the USB stick is read only when it is not
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Universidad Nacional de Colombia
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