Hello, when I try to run a game via a wine folder destination I get this warning "The destination folder is not writable by the current user”, what can i do to make it go away, I tried giving it permission but I think i didn’t do it right. What can i do? If i missed any information please tell me s…

Anything outside your /home/$USER tree is write protected - part of multiuser security.

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And what would be the short version of my problem? “drwxrwxrwx 5 octavianb octavianb 4,0K aug 7 00:04 wine-lol drwxr-xr-x 5 octavianb octavianb 4,0K aug 6 23:51 wine-lol-glibc” Also, does this mean the files have permissions?

The short version? What are the mountpoints for those filesystems? Do they have write permission for your user account? Are they mounted automatically or from within /etc/fstab? What filesystem is on those volumes? NTFS and FAT-derivatives do not store UNIX filesystem permissions and file ow…

"The destination folder is not writable by the current user”

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