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I wanted to changed the location of my $HOME directory from a 200 GB SSD to a 2 TB SATA. I did it according to the second answer found here. Now Teamviewer will not start any more. I if I try to start it by just clicking the icon, nothing happens. If I try it from the terminal by typing teamviewer I get following message:

Init...
XRandRWait: No value set. Using default.
XRandRWait: Started by user.
Checking setup...
wine: /home/adminuser/.local/share/teamviewer11 is not owned by you
wine: /home/adminuser/.local/share/teamviewer11 is not owned by you

Of course I checked if my account has permission to use teamviewer, and it does. Why was there no issue before, and now there is?

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steeldriver mentioned that Ubuntu does not run well on a NTSF formatted filesystem. So I backed up my hard drive, changed $HOME to the back up drive and formatted my drive to ext4. Then I copied everything back to my now ext4 formatted drive. It still did not work right away. Here is how it fixed it:

  1. Uninstall teamviewer sudo apt-get remove teamviwer
  2. Download and install the latest .deb file from teamviewer offical home page.

  3. Still did not work. Now I changed ownership in the .config folder again:

    sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /home/$USER/.config/teamviewer

  4. Then in the .local/share/ folder:

    sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /home/$USER/.local/share/teamviewer11

That did it for me. I changed ownership using chown several times but it did not work. Formatting my drive to ext4 and reinstalling teamviewer did it though.

Thank you guys.

Vaxin
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