Everything was fine until I upgraded from 21.10 to 22.04. Now, whenever I try to download something in any browser (Brave, Vivaldi, Firefox, etc), I can only download it to my home folder or any folder inside the system drive (I use a separate SSD for Ubuntu). I use my data HDD on auto-mount so i'ts always mounted & I have no problem reading/writing from it (I can open Rhythmbox and play music from there, wget files into it via Terminal, copy, paste & delete), but I can't 'Save As' on my browsers, it asks me if I want to save but files won't download, show up in the HDD or even in the browsers download list. Already checked permissions & apps have permission. Does anybody know how to solve this or even what's causing it?
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I'm using deb packaged firefox and chrome and I could not save files outside of the home directories.
My problem is with bookmarks on the gnome Files app. I removed all of the bookmarks and added them again. I can then save files to the bookmarked locations.
xpk
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I struggled with this for quite some time and it turned out to be the apparmor service. Running systemctl stop apparmor fixed the problem temporarily. You might want to run systemctl disable apparmor for the setting to persist across reboots.
Note that AppArmor is a Mandatory Access Control (MAC) system which is a kernel (LSM) enhancement to confine programs to a limited set of resources. If one has security concerns, turning off this service may not be the best solution.
YMMV.
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I have the same problem, 22.04 here.. but now i'm using "Chromium" temporarily. It works fine! Check it out.
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