RESOLVED: it was caused by the app being flatpak. use Flatseal!
I have a network drive mounted to my computer (PopOS). I have read & write access to everything in the drive and can drag and drop files between two Nautilus windows, but if I try to drag a file from the network drive into an email for example, I get a popup about file permissions. Is it because flatpak apps don’t inherit my user permissions?
If the email application is a flatpak, then it might not have permission. You could use FlatSeal to provide access to the directory where your network share is mounted for that specific application.
Never heard of Flatseal before, that’s awesome! I gave Mailspring access to the folder in /mnt/ and logged out, and it’s working as expected now. Thank you!
What protocol are you using? How are you mounting the drive?
The drive is NFS, on a Debian machine. I mounted it with a simple “mount” command into /mnt/
Not sure if this is related or not but when I was unable to open media files (that were stored on my SMB server) in VLC (also got permission denied) I solved it by installing “kio-fuse”.
Hope you figure it out.
Thank you – Flatseal fixed the problem!
