Filesystem is very dificult to understand for me, and apps have problems too, it seems

[Jonasan]

I mentioned the problem to navigate in the filesystem in a previous question:
Information wanted about file-system and search function I didn’t find an answer to that question.

Now, I have a USB-disk , it’s at run/media/myname/USBdisk

But if try to find that disk with, for instance Puddletag, I don’t have that media directory. I gave Puddletag more permissions with Flatseal, but that didn’t help.

Where the fudge can I find all those directories??

(Puddletag is not the only app that didn’t see my usb-disks).

[MaxJanky]

I haven’t used Puddletag, but I use a lot of flatpaks and haven’t noticed any issue accessing mounted drives. I just launched VLC (from flatpak) and used it to open an MP3 on a usb mounted in a similar location to yours as a sanity check. No problems.

Can you get into the location you expect the drive to be using any means? Do you see it in a terminal command-line? In your DE’s file manager?

[Jonasan]

Thank you for testing and for your feedback!

Dolphin sees the drive and folders, Clapper (media player) sees them, system sees them.
And like I said, it’s not only Puddletag (it was another tag-application, that’s why I switched) I can open the files on the drive with Puddletag tough.

❯ sudo fdisk -l

(...)

Device     Boot Start        End    Sectors   Size Id Type
/dev/sda1        2048 1953522112 1953520065 931,5G  7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

Anyway, maybe I’ll have to come back to this when I experience it again with another program…

[Jonasan]

Correction: I use Nautilus, not Dolphin.

But anyway, I installed Rhythmbox and that couldn’t see my usb-drive either, until I changed permissions with Flatseal. I allowed it to reach input-devices and that did the trick.

I don’t know if the warningsign is important?

[mel226]

The warning sign just shows that it’s a setting the user has modified, it’s nothing to worry about!