I'm running Ubuntu 24.10.
My /media directory (the usual mountpoint for external HDD) has the following permissions:
$ ls -l / | grep media
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 mag 16 2024 media
The owner is root but it has permissions to execute (aka enter) the directory.
From normal user I can do:
$ ls /media/
mark root
if I run Audacity as normal user (installed from snap) and try to open an audio file it refuses to enter the /media directory:
Error opening directory
/media: Permission denied
I tried:
sudo chmod -R a+rxw /media/
but nothing has changed. What should I do in order to let Audacity entering this directory?
/media? Is it a local directory? Is it a mount point? Is it a network directory? Since only root has execute permissions, it is normal that audacity can't entrer the directory (entering it,cding into it, requires execute permission), but it is not normal that you cannot change the permissions, that will probably be down to exactly what/mediais.mountaccess permissions, since /media is usually a mountpoint for removable devices. Until you answer @terdon's questions, it remains only a guess.