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I am running Linux Mint 16 and looks like I am having permission issues with a Data folder. Vuze is giving me an error message. 

'Error Failed to Create Parent Directory 'media/jholderman/Data/Vuze Downloads/Arch Linux/ArchLinux2014.iso''

I tried this answer from superuser and this didnt change anything: How can I give write-access of a folder to all users in linux?

jholderman@JMH-Server ~ $ sudo chgrp -R users /media/jholderman/Data
jholderman@JMH-Server ~ $ sudo chmod -R g+w /media/jholderman/Data/
jholderman@JMH-Server ~ $ sudo find /media/jholderman/Data -type d -exec chmod 2775 {} \;  
jholderman@JMH-Server ~ $ sudo find /media/jholderman/Data/ -type f -exec chmod ug+rw {} \;

I even went ahead and did it the GUI way and it appears that it doesnt save. When I elevate privileges in the file browser and modify the folder, and the drives permissions it never saves when I re-examine it? Why is that?

Any help?

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Jon H
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Your issue is Vuze is not a user or group on your system. You need to allow write permission to other. Run:

sudo chmod -R o+w /media/jholderman/Data/

With the chmod command you are working with 3 different areas. User, Group and Other. The first two are instances on your system while the third covers everything else.

Since you are using the letter format rather than number to assign permissions with chmod you also have an 'all' area to work with.

For more detail on how all this works you can see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chmod"> here

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