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When I try to open a .psd file using gimp I get this error:

Opening '/media/anonoymous/Other's/Practise/bootstarp/design.psd' failed: Could not open '/media/anonoymous/Other's/Practise/bootstarp/design.psd' for reading: Permission denied

What should I do?

Zanna
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md alam
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I was able to correct this error by giving the gimp snap access to the removable-media plug by entering the following command:

snap connect gimp:removable-media :removable-media

Best of Luck

SDsolar
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Andrew
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The Ubuntu Software program now has a way to set permissions on the page for the snap software with this issue. There is a 'Permissions' button under the name of the program.

The page for GIMP in the Ubuntu Software program, showing the Launch, Remove, and Permissions buttons

Click that, and then click the button next to where it says 'Read/write files on removable storage devices'

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You will be prompted to enter your password. After that the problem is solved.

Ubuntu will regard internal drives other than the drive with the Ubuntu OS as removable storage devices too.

kim holder
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Gimp wouldn't open any files for me, even when I fixed the permissions. I deinstalled the snap version, and reinstalled with

sudo apt install gimp

and the problems went away.

Steven Pemberton
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I had an analogous problem but with .pat file. My problem was actually that the owner and the group of the file (check it by using the command ls -la) was set to root for some reason. I changed it with chwon myuser:mygroup myfile to the local user and the problem was solved.

Good luck.

beredentod
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After installing 2.10.38 I got Permission denied too. I replaced 2.10.38 with 2.10.36, and it's fine. Probably we need to wait for fixes...

ubontik
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