Linuxslaves.com - I have a 4 GB FAT32 USB stick. It was a Debian USB drive before I deleted the partition using Gparted and created a new FAT32 partition.
I don't know why my USB flash drive suddenly become read only devices.
I don't know why my USB flash drive suddenly become read only devices.
When I tried to copy anything to the USB drive, it gave me Error while copying to blablabla. The destination is read-only.
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See the screenshot below :
I've tried giving a full permissions but it didn't work.
Fix USB Drive is Read Only in Ubuntu
Thanks to askubuntu, I finally found the solution. Ah ya, this confirmed as a bug. To fix the issue, simply open terminal and kill the file manager.
For those who use Nautilus :
killall nautilusFor those who use Nemo :
killall nemoNow copy and paste works flawlessly.
That's it. These were all to fix cannot copy the file because the destination is read only in Ubuntu 14.04 / 16.04 / 18.04. Thanks for reading!.