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First I can't open my other drives. There's an error unknown filesystem type 'exfat'. I solved this by installing exfat-fuse and exfat-utils. Now I can open my other drives.

But now I want to copy files from my Ubuntu drive partition to the other drives via the ubuntu GUI, but I can't copy it. The paste command is disabled.

I know there's a command line way to do this, but I want to do this via GUI. It's faster to do this via GUI and I don't have to memorize commands.

Is there a program that I can install to make this possible?

aceraven777
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  • This should just work. Have you rebooted? How are the exFAT drives connected? (Usb or sata) Can you copy and paste to a usb thumb drive? (Formatted exFAT) – PonJar Sep 27 '19 at 09:38
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    Maybe your partition with exFAT is mounted read-only (so that you are not allowed to write to it). In that case you can unmount it and mount it read-write. Maybe the owner of the exFAT is root and not your own userID. In that case you can unmount it and mount it with your own userID. This link and links from it may help. – sudodus Sep 27 '19 at 09:45
  • Might be worth copying a file using the command line to test that works. “cp path/to/source path/to/destination “. If sudokus is right you get errors that should confirm it. Good shout sudokus! – PonJar Sep 27 '19 at 09:50
  • @PonJar, the exFAT drives is HDD, year via sata. – aceraven777 Sep 27 '19 at 10:01
  • @sudodus, should I reformat my partition to another filesystem? Like fat32? – aceraven777 Sep 27 '19 at 10:03
  • It makes no difference what medium it is USB pendrive, SD card, SDD, HDD ... – sudodus Sep 27 '19 at 10:04
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    I don't think you need to re-format, I think it works with the same mount options for exFAT as with FAT32 and NTFS. But if you wish, you can create a new file system. In that case I would suggest the linux file system ext4, where you have full control of ownership and permissions on the directory and file level like in the internal drive. – sudodus Sep 27 '19 at 10:07
  • @sudodus, thanks that solves my problem. Can you make that as an answer so I can award you the best answer. – aceraven777 Sep 27 '19 at 10:14
  • I am glad that I could help you solve your problem :-) – sudodus Sep 27 '19 at 10:43

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Maybe your partition with exFAT is mounted read-only (so that you are not allowed to write to it). In that case you can unmount it and mount it read-write. Maybe the owner of the exFAT is root and not your own userID. In that case you can unmount it and mount it with your own userID. This link and links from it may help.

I don't think you need to re-format, I think it works with the same mount options for exFAT as with FAT32 and NTFS. But if you wish, you can create a new file system. In that case I would suggest the linux file system ext4, where you have full control of ownership and permissions on the directory and file level like in the internal drive.

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