In your screenshot Dolphin your home folder is shown overlapping your terminal. My home folder is situated next to the terminal display. I took a screenshot but I do not know where Antix 15 stores them. Sorry!!

does your spacefm look like mine? or do your internal partition show up in a panel on the left hand side?

My terminal is in the same position as yours but my terminal showing the warning I received.

the warning may or may not mean anything. I can't tell how spacefm is configured unless you tell me.

a few more questions for you.

1. have you reformated the usb drive lately?

2. if so , how is it formated?

3. with the drive plugged in, does it show up in the partitions pane in spacefm?

4. you said you mounted it with mountbox. what is the device of the drive (/dev/sdb?)

the warning you are getting is a standard message about a preference not being set (the root edit for spacefm's Edit as Root function).

I suspect you need to click on the little computer icon in the toolbar so you can see your removable devices.

I have not intentionally reformated my USB30FD. I did an update recently, would that change the USB flash drive format?? I have used it to mostly transfer URL from my other os onto antix 15. When I started this thread clicking spacefm got nothing at all. At least now I get my home folder files and I can access my flash drive through the control panel. What does the warning I am receiving in the spacefm terminal mean??

the flash is labeled media-USB30FD

it means you haven't specified a editor for the"Edit as Root" function, which you can do in the Preferences dialog.

I'm sorry Dolphin but I do not know exactly where to go to change the" edit as root" function or what to change it to once I get there!!.

dolphin_oracle wrote:please post a screenshot. in spacefm, saying your home folder is displayed can mean a 1000 different things.

cousinlucky wrote:I took a screenshot but I do not know where Antix 15 stores them.

The following will put a screeshot of your entire screen in the root of your home directory. It will be named screenshot.jpg.

Applications-->Graphics-->Screenshot

How to save screenshot to root of home directory without being prompted to specify a location

How to save screenshot to root of home directory without being prompted to specify a location

Make sure to untick the box Choose a directory
Press the OK button

Post screenshot.jpg as requested.

Dolphin, I thought about what you said about my flash drive format so I put it into a different USB slot and it and the spacefm worked okay.

I made a screenshot of my spacefm terminal and it is now in my home folder. How do I get it onto this forum thread, please?

cousinlucky wrote:I made a screenshot of my spacefm terminal and it is now in my home folder. How do I get it onto this forum thread, please?

use the"Full Editor" and add the file as an attachment.

Well hopefully I'll get this screenshot here:

Indeed you did!

So based on your post about putting the drive in a different usb slot, is everything working normally now? Does spacefm launch from the menu OK?

I've been thinking about your original error.

I do not know what happened but spacefm does not work anymore and I can not use my flash drive. I rebooted with the drive in and got a notice stating" unable to access /media/USB30FD permission denied"!!

spacefm gives this error if you closed spacefm previously with the drive mounted, but the next time you started spacefm the driver wasn't mounted anymore (literally can't access the device). This is because by default spacefm tries to reopen previously open tabs from the last session. So it tried to open a tab for a device that wasn't there.

From there I don't know what happened that spacefm wouldn't launch from the menu, but I would say something strange happened with the drive, maybe was unmounted when it was pull out or somethng odd happened at shutdown. Tough to say, but the fact that it works in a different USB port means its not spacefm's problem.

the icon I have circled in your screenshot (attached) enables the removable device panel for spacefm. an inserted device should show up here even if its mounted by some other app (mountbox for instance).



the root editor warning in the terminal output is simply informational. you can get rid of it be specifying an editor in the spacefm preferences

View>Preferences>advanced_tab. I usually just copy the"Editor" command into the"Root Editor" field.



so hopefully your problem has worked itself out.