Permissions issue in OnlyOffice when trying to write to an exFAT partition

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Hi,

When I try to save a file to an exFAT partition, OnlyOffice gives me the following error:

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The way I have the exFAT partition mounted is as follows:

UUID=688F-6669 /home/my_user/Data exfat rw,user,nodev,async,auto,defaults,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=022 0 0

I have tried other applications and they can write directly to that exFAT partition from Linux.

Does anyone know how to solve this problem?

Regards.

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Hi @Alden20,

Permissions don’t apply to an exfat partition; it’s incapable of supporting them, for Linux purposes. Try this instead in your /etc/fstab file:

UUID=688F-6669   /home/my_user/Data  exfat   defaults,nofail  0   0

Some useful reference information:

Cheers.

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Well if other programs have no problem then it must be something about OnlyOffice. Since it is proprietary you would need to ask the OnlyOffice Support. https://forum.onlyoffice.com/

My guess is that it tries to write a file with specific permissions, which doesn’t work on exfat, since it is just an overlay and set on mount time.

umask 022 means → Dirs 755 Files 644

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