Can't Write to My SD Card on PopOS - Any Ideas?
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CoolCat42
Hey everyone! I'm having a bit of trouble with my micro SD cards after switching to PopOS. Both a 64GB and a 32GB card are giving me a hard time when I try to write to them. I've formatted them to ext4 and also attempted another format that starts with 'X', but I'm not sure what it's called. Unfortunately, nothing seems to be working, and it's starting to get really frustrating. Could anyone help me out with some advice or possible fixes? Thanks!
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Are you getting any specific error messages? What exactly are you trying to write to the card? Also, make sure you unmount the SD card before you unplug it; that can sometimes cause issues too.
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It sounds like it could be a permissions issue. You might need to change the ownership of the SD card using the 'chown' command. Just run this in the terminal: `sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /media/$USER/` and see if that helps. If you can, try formatting it to exFAT too, as that often works better with SD cards.
BusyBee21: The partition software I use doesn’t have exFAT as an option, but I’ll check it again in a bit.
CoolCat42: Thanks for the suggestion! I’ll try that tonight. I've been super busy lately.
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If you formatted the cards with Linux filesystems, you need to change the ownership of the mount point after it's mounted, so your user has access to it. Using chown recursively might be necessary if there are already files on it. If you need help with this, check out some beginner Linux guides on file permissions and mounting filesystems!
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CoolCat42: I’m not seeing any error messages; I just can’t move files over at all to either SD. I used to have OpenSuse and a Steamdeck image on them, so I need to transfer files for modding purposes.