I am trying to install programs and games onto my extra storage devices/drives both ssd and hdd but I keep getting this message: Invalid Save Permissions: The file could not be saved because you don’t have the proper permissions. Choose another save directory. How do I allow my system to save and …

I just tried chmod 775 /run/media/rogan/Games/ and it came back with operation not permitted. Is this because I didn’t use sudo? I recently read on another forum that you shouldn’t use sudo for this as it will create a security issue. Is this true?

I just tried it with Sudo and it still didn’t work.

you probably want to own the mount point first with sudo chown -R user:user <path> then change the permissions sudo chmod -R 775 <path> there is also a great solution over here on the arch forum about setting up a storage group for disks if you want to work with the least privilege. https://bbs…

Thank’s Akin. I will play around with this for a bit and see if I get. I’ll keep you posted.

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Now this is what I’m talking about! THANKS. :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

I tried owning the mount point by playing with different variations of the command you provided and this is what the terminal came back at me with. Please note? (Games) is what I named my drive/storage device using the Gparted app. sudo chown rogan:rogan -R /run/media/rogan/games/devnvme1n1p1 —no…

Unix/Linux filesystems are case-sensitive. This applies to folders, files, and “devices”. Secondly, why are you appending more stuff beyond the actual root path for your drive? This is supposedly the path to the external drive: /run/media/rogan/Games Don’t keep adding to it like in some of your …

Any idea why the command sudo chown rogan:rogan -r /run/media/rogan/games —invalid option r comes back with invalid option r? Knowing this would help me move forward.

Because as the error message states, -r is an invalid option. It’s not even in the chown manpage or tutorial. You introduced -r yourself. @akin2silver there’s a typo in your earlier post. :warning: (Happens to the best of us.)

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