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I have a DELL Vostro 1015 laptop and just installed Ubuntu 16.04 upon. But I cant copy anything into USB flash memories! The "paste" option and "new folder" option don't work on USB flash memory!

I tried some solutions and commands I found on the Internet but they didn't work and one of them caused start up problems and forced me to re-installing Ubuntu!

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I solved the problem with this guide I found it here: How do I get permission to edit in my usb

Mount a FAT32 partition in a USB stick with write permissions for everybody

Assumption: the pendrive is seen as /dev/sdx, replace the partition device sdxn with the actual letters for the partition, for example sdb1: /dev/sdxn ---> /dev/sdb1.

Explanation: x is the drive letter, and n is the partition number. Text after # is a comment (not used as a command).

sudo mkdir -p /mnt/sd1  # only if you want a new mountpoint
sudo umount /dev/sdxn   # general: only if already mounted (with bad permissions).
sudo umount /dev/sdb1   # example

sudo mount -o rw,users,umask=000 /dev/sdxn /mnt/sd1  # general: mount
sudo mount -o rw,users,umask=000 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sd1  # example
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