First of all thank you for the great software that I use every day!
I recently updated Freecad on my Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS from 0.18.4 to 0.19 via ppa:stable.
It starts as it should but I face a problem I can not solve as a Linux newbie:
1) In the file browser (File->Open dialog) I have no access to my mounted disk /mnt/... that is I dont see my disk device there.
2) If I overcome the browsing issue by using the OS browser and choose "open with" to open my .FCSTD I get the error
Exception while processing file: /mnt/XXX/XXX/XXX.FCStd [Invalid project file: (XXX is hiding the actual path and file name due to company policies)
3) If I drag and drop the file to Freecad I get:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
<class 'OSError'>: Invalid project file: /mnt/XXX/XXX/XXX.FCStd
If I copy the File to the home folder it opens just fine.
Setting/ adding DontUseNativeDialog=true in the Parameter Editor does not change this behavior.
I suspect QT/ Freecad has some access right issues here. But as said I am a Linux newbie and have no clue where to start.
OS: Ubuntu Core 20 (ubuntu:GNOME/ubuntu)
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.19.24276 (Git)
Build type: Unknown
Branch: releases/FreeCAD-0-19
Hash: a88db11e0a908f6e38f92bfc5187b13ebe470438
Python version: 3.8.5
Qt version: 5.12.8
Coin version: 4.0.0
OCC version: 7.5.0
Locale: English/United States (en_US)
Thank you in advance...
EDIT: Rolled back to 0.18 since I need to open my files. If anyone has a fix... let me know.
0.19 access to mounted disk on Ubuntu
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Re: 0.19 access to mounted disk on Ubuntu
Just in case anyone faces the same problem:
It turned out to be an issue using the snap-installer version of FreeCad (also affects V20.XX).
sudo snap connect freecad:removable-media
did the trick, allowing freecad to access all disks/ USB-sticks in /mnt/
kind regards, Labortechniker
It turned out to be an issue using the snap-installer version of FreeCad (also affects V20.XX).
sudo snap connect freecad:removable-media
did the trick, allowing freecad to access all disks/ USB-sticks in /mnt/
kind regards, Labortechniker
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Re: 0.19 access to mounted disk on Ubuntu
starting freecad with sudo should also "fix" the problem
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Re: 0.19 access to mounted disk on Ubuntu
running applications as sudo for mundane stuff like this is very bad practice (specially considering FreeCAD loads a ton of python scripts) so please don't go recommending that as a "fix", plus I don't know if you even can launch the snap version as root.
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Re: 0.19 access to mounted disk on Ubuntu
thanks for the hint. I should have added that I recommend always using productive systems offline, then it's not a security problemadrianinsaval wrote: ↑Mon Sep 26, 2022 8:15 pm running applications as sudo for mundane stuff like this is very bad practice (specially considering FreeCAD loads a ton of python scripts) so please don't go recommending that as a "fix", plus I don't know if you even can launch the snap version as root.