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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, GNOME 3.28.1

So I edited fstab to automatically mount my 2 extra hard drives. I added the lines:

UUID=CA3E5AC13E5AA66B   /home/plaguedoc/Media   ntfs    defaults    0   1
UUID=18550E2F479E1462   /home/plaguedoc/Software    ntfs    defaults    0   1

But now any time I try to open any file (movie, music) or save new word documents, the software I'm using tells me I don't have the permissions to access the HDDs. Specifically, VLC thinks I'm trying to stream a movie over the internet, and if I try using "open file" it cannot see the contents of my hdd, and LibreOffice actually tells me I do not have permission to access the HDD and cannot see the contents when saving or opening files. Copying and pasting files with file manager works just fine, and if I move the movies to my desktop I can play them without any trouble. I can also save documents to the SSD where my OS is installed and then simply copy and paste them where I like.

Oddly enough, my torrent software has no trouble downloading and saving to my software drive. I can also open/view pictures and even edit the existing word documents on my hdds.

I read up on adding uid/gid/fmask/dmask but apparently this will only limit permissions, it can't add new ones.

I have also read that chmod can set permissions, but this will have to be repeated every single time I reboot, which means it is not a practical solution.

Is this issue based on having mounted them in /home/user? Should I be mounting elsewhere? Is there a permanent solution to setting permissions for my HDDs? Is this possibly an issue with where Ubuntu Software Centre is installing my software? (Default OS programs seem to work fine but any others I installed don't)

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Check who owns the folder and files in it with

ls -lah /home/plaguedoc/Media

It's likely owned by the user root and that's why your user doesn't have permissions. Add uid=1000 or uid=yourusername. This will change who owns the folder to you and you will be able to read and write to it.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AutomaticallyMountPartitions

So something like this:

UUID=CA3E5AC13E5AA66B   /home/plaguedoc/Media   ntfs    rw,user,auto,fmask=0177,dmask=0077,uid=1000    0   1
UUID=18550E2F479E1462   /home/plaguedoc/Software    ntfs    rw,user,auto,fmask=0177,dmask=0077,uid=1000    0   1
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