I suspect the issue is with the file system on that drive partition. Are you using this drive with other computers running Windows?
Zorin OS uses EXT4 as the file system whereas Windows uses NTFS. The way that file permissions are stored in EXT4 does not transfer to NTFS which would explain why the permissions are not taking in.
Run lsblk -f to list all block devices along with their file systems. Should return something like this (we're only interested in the second column of the drive):
However, this still doesn't explain why you are seeing errors while renaming and moving files. Based on the permissions alone as shown in your screenshots this should've worked anyway.
So, does this maybe happen while you have some program running that is using the drive? Or are you maybe trying to drag files between drives? If you find that it sometimes works but sometimes it doesn't, please make a note of when the error happens.
@zenzen yes mate on my HDD I have zorin lite OS
but it was normal before everything IDK
I thought about it also maybe the problem that I have another OS on the HDD
You need to provide the -f flag to see the file system as well: lsblk -f. If it's NTFS that would explain why you can't change the permissions on any of the folders.
Assuming that is the case, you'd have to narrow down when the issue regarding moving and renaming files happens, and when it doesn't. Based solely on permissions there shouldn't be any problem so there must be something else causing this. Maybe it's when you try with a specific file or while some process is reading its contents?
I'm afraid this only explains why you couldn't change the ownership of the files, and not the reason behind the errors your were experiencing to begin with. As I said, try to narrow down when do these errors happen.
There's another thread where a user is seeing multiple folders for what should be the same drive location. I wonder if this is the same issue... for which we still don't know what is the cause or how to solve it. You might want to take a look, in case it sounds like this may be the case for you as well:
I agree, can't tell anything out of place from this. My only suggestion would be to try and find a pattern on when the issue happens. Perhaps something that was recently installed, updated, etc?
Also, all this time the assumption was that this issue happened only with files from an external drive; do you have any issues with files in your home folder, too?
as we can see here both partitions NTFS
so I used same line for both but and now permissions are same for both but why 1 of the partitions I can rename or move files and main 1 I can't
@337harvey actually I realized that the problem in 1 folder exactly the folder I need to rename the folders inside it
the main folder I can't rename and some folders inside it I can rename some other I can't
also I tried to rename using the mv command but I got the error mv: cannot move to : Directory not empty
Damn man now I'm trying to delete folder and I got this
@337harvey thanks for the information I thought system volume information it's from the old windows OS that why I was trying to delete it
now can we talk more about why I have 1 folder in this Main partition can't rename
some folders in this folder I can rename and some other I can't what to do with that ?
