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Until yesterday if I wanted to access a shared partition with Windows in my machine I just clicked other locations -> the partition and could work normally, but now I get

Unable to access location Not authorized to perform operation

I tried mounting by terminal with mount to /mnt and it worked, if I go to mnt in nautilus it loads my files.

Any ideas how to restore the functionality to mount just by clicking?

nubol23
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  • This happened to me some weeks ago and I found that the permissions were changed from the user to root. Maybe that's why you are able to access it only from the terminal. I would say that you first check the owner of your Windows partition if it is root and then change it to the user using `chown` https://askubuntu.com/questions/693418/use-chown-to-set-the-ownership-of-all-a-folders-subfolders-and-files , but remember don't change the ownership of the root directory of Ubuntu ;)) – Parag Katoch May 07 '21 at 01:03

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I managed to solve It, strangely, it was caused by Chrome Remote Desktop as reported here https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/693294 After stoping the process and uninstalling it, the problem was gone.

nubol23
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