just an observation. I've had some problems with external drives that I have partitioned NTFS just to make it more compatible across platforms and have run into very similar problems and had to jump through the same sort of hoops as you have had to jump through. So in answer to some of your questions, Paul, I can't say why it's this difficult. I don't know. It just is. Is it this difficult across all different versions of Linux? Yes, it's a file permissions issue and incompatibility between, in my case, incompatibility between the Windows file format and Linux file formats. I think part of the reason it might be that you have to go through these hoops is because Linux is more secure than the Windows, which kind of gives you more administrator kind of permissions by default. I mean, Windows over the years has gotten a little more sensitive to this and has locked down a few more things. So it is not quite as bad at opening up permissions as it has been in the past. But Linux is more (12/54)
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