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i just upgraded my Ubuntu to 12.10 and i noticed that i get this message The location is not a folder whenever i try to access a mounted media (USB or even my other partitions). I am now unable to view content on my usb pendrive or other partitions.

already tried sudo apt-get remove exo-utils with no luck because it says it is not installed.

Can anyone help me?

UPDATE: this workaround seems to work for me https://askubuntu.com/a/204226/59618

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  • ***What is the file-type?*** ***Did you upgrade or clean-install 11.10?*** This can happen when behavior for opening/copying a file or media is outdated / incorrect. **Somewhere there is a path that is no longer correct. Possibly in Nautilus configuration.** – david6 Oct 20 '12 at 23:47
  • I had a clean install on ubuntu 12.04. I now upgraded from it to 12.10 – psychok7 Oct 20 '12 at 23:50
  • Whoops, I meant **12.10**. – david6 Oct 20 '12 at 23:55
  • Have you looked at this question? ["The location is not a folder" error when opening files](http://askubuntu.com/questions/59761/the-location-is-not-a-folder-error-when-opening-files) – Anwar Oct 21 '12 at 13:54
  • Me too having the same issue. http://askubuntu.com/questions/204119/mount-issue-muti-user-ubuntu-12-10#comment253756_204119 – Vipin Ms Oct 21 '12 at 14:48
  • A.S that solution did not work for me either – psychok7 Oct 21 '12 at 15:16

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Are you trying to access the device through command line or script that worked with 12.04 and previous versions? They've changed the default mount point for USB devices so you might have to change the way you are doing things slightly to take it into account.

Previously USB devices were accessed at

/media/volume

or

/media/UUID

From now on it looks like these devices will need to be accessed at

/media/username/volume

or

/media/username/UUID

Yep, it's a pain, but I found that inserting $LOGNAME in my scripts seems to be taking care of it quickly and neatly. For example instead of:

cp -nv /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb /media/${args[0]}/archives/$release/

change to:

cp -nv /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb /media/$LOGNAME/${args[0]}/archives/$release/

To repair any permissions problems make sure you own the drive and all subdirectories open a terminal window with CtrlAltt and :

sudo chown -R username:username /media/username/volume

such as:

sudo chown -R psychock7:psychock7 /media/psychoc7/BACKUP\ HDD

see if you can cd into the directories or if you get any errors.

cd /media
cd psychock7
cd backup\ hdd
cd dirname

etc.

You can use

ls

to get a directory listing, and use 

ls -l

To get a long dirctory listing with extra information such as owner and access rights.

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  • I am trying to acess it through nautilus/unity, not the terminal.. should i still do this? – psychok7 Oct 20 '12 at 23:53
  • No, it should already know where the mount point is. It seems like something is broken. You could plug your USB device in and have a look at the directory /media/username (your username) and see if it is mounting correctly though. If it's there, I don't see why nautilus should be having a problem. – fabricator4 Oct 21 '12 at 00:11
  • i got it working with SUDO... how can i change to make this the default behaviour? – psychok7 Oct 21 '12 at 00:24
  • It seems like a permissions problem. Do you only have one user? – fabricator4 Oct 21 '12 at 01:15
  • Yes only one user – psychok7 Oct 21 '12 at 01:18
  • Possibly, an ownership problem open a terminal windows and type : 'chown -R username:username /media/volume' where username is your username, and volume is the mount point - either the volume label or the UUID. – fabricator4 Oct 21 '12 at 01:29
  • i tried 'sudo chown -R psychok7:/psychok7/media/BACKUP\ HDD' and also tried 'sudo chown -R psychok7:/media/psychok7/BACKUP\ HDD' and for both i got 'chown: missing operand after `psychok7:/media/psychok7/BACKUP HDD'' – psychok7 Oct 21 '12 at 13:17
  • Spaces are in the wrong places. Should be sudo chown -R psychock7:psychok7 /media/psychok7/BACKUP\ HDD – fabricator4 Oct 21 '12 at 13:20
  • tried and still getting "the location is not a folder" – psychok7 Oct 21 '12 at 14:29
  • I've added information for looking at the directories with command line. Try it out and let us know if/when you get any error messages. – fabricator4 Oct 21 '12 at 14:43
  • when i "cd BACKUP\ HDD/" i get a "bash: cd: BACKUP HDD/: Permission denied" with ls -l i get a "drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Oct 19 20:27 BACKUP HDD drwx------ 5 root root 4096 Oct 21 16:14 psychok7" . i should add that this psychok7 is my usb3 pen drive – psychok7 Oct 21 '12 at 15:19
  • You still have an ownership problem, you need to use the chown command to change ownership and permissions. I've edited the instructions above to be be clearer, please read them carefully and try again. – fabricator4 Oct 21 '12 at 15:33
  • yes i did the chown command before posting this results just forgot to mention it – psychok7 Oct 21 '12 at 15:43
  • i found this workaround to be usefull http://askubuntu.com/a/204226/59618 – psychok7 Oct 21 '12 at 22:25