Error Opening Directory Message SOLVED

[enjohn]

Hello. I have a 1TB HDD where I store my personal Data. I opened the drive to check the contents and received the following: Could not scan some of the folders contained in “/media/enjohn/Personal Data”
and also - Error opening directory '/media/enjohn/Personal Data/lost+found': Permission denied. Can someone tell me what I may have done?. I did take a screenshot of the drive if that will help. Thanks.

[rene]

Nothing's wrong; the lost+found thingy says you formatted the drive as ext4 and that Linux-native filesystem has proper support for UNIX-ownerships/permissions. That's then however also immediately to say that you will need to set those permissions correctly; to if you want to be able to access any given content on the filesystem as user "enjohn" rather than as user "root" / through sudo, that you will need to set permissions to allow for that.

lost+found should itself generally not need to be; if you were just "idly" checking things the answer can very well be that you should do nothing (other than understand that above UNIX ownership/permission concept). If you insist, you can in one fell swoop re-own all to "enjohn" with

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sudo chown -R enjohn: "/media/enjohn/Personal Data"

but should as said probably not do so; nothing's wrong as such, and certainly not when it's only lost+found that produced the message.

[enjohn]

Okay - thanks. I think that as a real novice I will leave well alone.