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After writing my last comment it actually helped me to come up with the solution. The problem is simply the same as with gimp. Access to removable media has to be explicitly granted in order to use folders beneath /mnt and /media when the program has been installed as a snap package: sudo snap conne...

Sounds like a permissions issues to me. What distro of Linux are you using and which folder selection menu are you talking about, is it in the preferences menu where you set the default backup or is it in the main screen itself? Hi, thanks for the reply. I'm on Linux Mate. I cannot access the folde...

I've just upgraded to Linux 24.04 Mate over the weekend and did install MakeMKV (paid registration) using the built-in App-Center. I'm a long time user and the program seems to work fine with one major exception: when I'm trying to choose a different backup folder in the folder selection menu then n...

You are my hero! :D Worked like a charm! I've locked the versions of makemkv and makemkvcon in synaptic right after the patch to avoid unwanted updates for the time being. Will update only if it stops working and not while it does. Only thing I had to do in addition to your instructions was to insta...

I've been running makemkv under Linux Mate for many years now (payed and registered; currently under Linux Mate 20.04.6 LTS). Few days ago I've noticed an update of makemkv as part of the usual Linux update routine. But when I try to start makemkv now I get a pop-up error message "Application f...