Sunday, November 17, 2019

usb sticks and cards have all become read only

For no apparent reason my desktop machine running Ubuntu 12.04 suddenly will not allow me to write to or create files/folders on any usb drive (memory sticks and cards). All work perfectly in my laptop running exactly the same system. I've checked all the usual ideas - it is not locked, I have formatted it on both machines and only the one machine has the problem.



I'm not an experienced user so keep it as simple as possible please!

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