Dolphin cannot write to second internal drive

Start with the most common problem and solution. It’s usually not due permissions nor ntfs-3g missing from the system (as it’s invoked by default when mounting an NTFS partition.)

Whenever you’re dealing with NTFS read/write access from a Linux system, it’s a good idea to first rule out the most common issue: an NTFS file-system marked as “dirty”.

Correcting this resolves the “read-only” issue for NTFS file-systems accessed from Linux for most users.

Here’s a post for reference, and you can read the entire thread if you’d like:

Either use ntfsfix and/or repair the file-system from within Windows 10 itself. The latter is a more thourough approach. Other similar issues arise if you instruct Windows to store a hiberation file and/or swap file on the partition in question.

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