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Author: Michael Havens
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Subject: Re: Permissions
dad.... I just thought of something. I had my printer plugged into a USB
port and one day it stopped working. I don't know why I did what I did but
I changed the USB port it w\as plugged in to and it came back to life. I
thought the port had died but when I plug thumb drives into it mounts.
Moral of the story.... try another port for the card reader.

On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 10:14 AM, Michael Havens <> wrote:

> I have no problem writing to SD cards with Mint17.
>
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 9:28 AM, Matt Graham <> wrote:
>
>> On 01/16/2016 08:03 PM, dad wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Mint 17.3. 8 gig micro card and named the owner dad. [...]
>>>>> I installed a program called sound converter to convert the offensive
>>>>> files. The micro card will NOT let me add or delete files to it.
>>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 10:59 PM, Brian Cluff <>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Did you accidentally flip the little switch on the side of the SD
>>>> card that puts it in write protect mode?
>>>>
>>>
>> That was my first thought, but that's apparently not the problem.
>>
>> On 2016-01-17 17:32, Snyder, Alexander wrote:
>>
>>> By default, storage devices that are plugged into the system mount
>>> automatically in the /media/<username> directory.
>>>
>>
>> Some distros do this. Mint is probably one of them.[0] Most
>> removable-media SD cards have a FAT32 filesystem on them, and FAT doesn't
>> actually have Unix-style permissions. These are faked at mount time
>> according to the automounter's configuration, and generally the user who's
>> logged in should be able to read and write the files on the mounted medium.
>>
>> So: Unplug the device, then plug it in again and immediately do "dmesg |
>> tail -n 40". This'll tell you what the kernel thinks is going on with the
>> SD card. It might think the filesystem is damaged and so it's mounting it
>> read-only, or something.
>>
>> [0] I don't think automounters are a good idea for various reasons.
>>
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