[SOLVED - See my last post] Using an external drive as my destination

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pauliej
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[SOLVED - See my last post] Using an external drive as my destination

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I’m having terrific success using MakeMKV to convert my extensive movie dvd collection to a set of files. My only problem is using an external hard drive as the destination, I’m getting a “permission” error. This may not be an MakeMKV issue, I realize, but wanted to see if anyone had something similar and was able to resolve it. My OS is Linux Mint running on a T61 Lenovo Thinkpad. MakeMKV Version 1.17.7 [Linux (x64-release)]…
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segfaulted
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Re: Using an external drive as my destination

Post by segfaulted »

Need more info.

Where did you install MakeMKV from? Flatpak, docker image, or compiled it yourself? It's possible that MakeMKV is being sandboxed and can't write to external volumes without granting extra permissions for it.
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Re: Using an external drive as my destination

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find the mounted directory with:

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df -h
change the owner with:

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chown -R $USER:$USER "/the/mounted/directory"
pauliej
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Re: Using an external drive as my destination

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I found this: viewtopic.php?t=26745

It talks about the sandboxing problem so I may try it later…
pauliej
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Re: Using an external drive as my destination

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The chown command idea did not eliminate the error, so I will do a reinstall using this:

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/how-to-inst ... -on-ubuntu
segfaulted
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Re: Using an external drive as my destination

Post by segfaulted »

It sounds like you have a Ubuntu snap version of MakeMKV.

Run this command: sudo snap connect makemkv:removable-storage
That should grant it access to external drives.
pauliej
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Re: Using an external drive as my destination

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I tried the command but got this:

paulie@paulie-ThinkPad-T61:~$ sudo snap connect makemkv:removable-storage error: snap "makemkv" has no plug named "removable-storage"
pauliej
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Re: Using an external drive as my destination

Post by pauliej »

Problem solved! By uninstalling my app and re-installing using the below instructions I can now write to an external hard drive.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:heyarje/makemkv-beta
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install makemkv-bin makemkv-oss
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